Stripey Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 brain in a dish flies flight simulatorhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 The "living computer" was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat's brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish.One rat? Crazy intelligent rats ahoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 The "living computer" was grown from 25' date='000 neurons extracted from a rat's brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish.[/b']One rat? Crazy intelligent rats ahoy!The question is, does it still know its a rat? Or does disassembling the individual neurons of a brain and then reconstructing them destroy the original "conscience"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 The question is' date=' does it still know its a rat? Or does disassembling the individual neurons of a brain and then reconstructing them destroy the original "conscience"?[/quote']We'll soon know when the Seriously Strong cheese guys get rid of that shit Bond ripoff and replace it with a brain-in-a-plane [catchy non?] that detects truckloads of cheese and rams them off the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reptile Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I work with people that are not this intelligent. Is this 'Brain in a dish' at Uni learning to become an engineer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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