An Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains

Jason Koebler writes: The brains of four rats have been interconnected to create a "Brainet" capable of completing computational tasks better than any one of the rats would have been able to on its own. Explains Duke University's Dr. Miguel Nicolelis: "Recently, we proposed that Brainets, i.e. networks formed by multiple animal brains, cooperating and exchanging information in real time through direct brain-to-brain interfaces, could provide the core of a new type of computing device: an organic computer. Here, we describe the first experimental demonstration of such a Brainet, built by interconnecting four adult rat brains."

Comments

What could possibly go wrong?

[random coward]

Really! What could possibly go wrong?

Quad core cpu?

[Anonymous Coward]

id make a comment about mice being input devices but this is just rediculos

Re:Ethics?

[blue trane]

Experiments should require the informed consent of all subjects. Until we can communicate with rats, we should not use them in experiments. Get informed consent from humans. If you can't, then do a non-destructive experiment, a simulation. Do not use live creatures without their consent.

How long till someone ports Doom?

[Nyder]

How long will it take someone to port Doom on them/it? I'm sure nothing would go wrong with that.

Re:How long till someone ports Doom?

[ameoba]

Quake would be a better option. The original Doom had poor mouse support.

Re:imagine

[Dracos]

Ahem, Beorat cluster.