Whoah. A brain in a dish learns to fly a flight simulator. I can only begin to fathom this. I mean, doesn’t that imply some sort of… awareness? An understanding of cause & effect?
The mind boggles. And the brain in a dish jiggles.
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i read that .. it is .. scary to be honest. . who knew rat brains liked flying airplanes so much?
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I watched this on discovery channel. It sounds a lot more impressive than it really is. Basically they stimulate this brain matter with pulses and the brain reacts, they track the reaction and these scientists input this into their simulator.
The brain has no concept of the simulator; it is not flying to any destination; only know up/down (this is all software); does not know pitch / yaw.
I find this actually really stupid. Maybe I should do my own slug melting test, get grants, and win!! What happens when you take a slug and dump salt on it and hook that up to a computer? Wow, mom, look I programmed this flight simulator to track the reaction of the slug melting to trigger a movie to play. The software is doing all the work they are just generation pulses and watching for a reaction. A coked out monkey could fly a plain better.
I dont think this is news worthy in the least and people should see it for what it is. Now if only they can implant a rat brain and drive via a remote control. Ill bite. Oh wait!
See, this is what I needed. More details. Given what I had to go on you can be damned sure it *is* newsworthy. Come on. A brain in a bucket flying a simulator? That’s news, sonny jim.
That said I can rest a lot easier knowing we’re not looking at a real-life The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
Thanks for the details, Justin.
“The brain cells then started to reconnect themselves, forming microscopic interconnections”
THAT’s the freaking cool part. The individual cells made themselves into a brain! Neural networks are neat.