Flying By Brain

Garabito writes "Scientists at the University of Florida made a living 'brain' by extracting 25,000 neurons from a rat's brain and culturing them inside a glass dish. Then, the neurons began to extend lines to each other, creating a living neural network between them. The dish had a grid of 60 electrodes connected to a computer running a flight simulator. The scientists were able to train the 'brain' to control the plane in the simulator and to react to conditions of the plane. Are we getting closer to create an artificially made conscious being, or perhaps, a living computer?" AlphaJoe was one of several readers to add a link to Wired's article on the experiment.

Comments

Re:working backwards

[mushroom blue]

Chicken-Egg problem is a red herring.

Eggs have been around much longer than chickens.

for instance, dinosaur eggs were around much earlier than the first chicken.

everything has an answer. you just might not like it.

Re:Just because we can?

[marvinalone]

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

You know ... if I can do something but choose not to, then it is almost guaranteed that someone else will. Even if you have moral qualms about it, it will be done. And in that case, I would rather be the one doing it, the one having control over it, than leaving it up to someone else.