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Whenever I hear stuff like this, I feel an existential crisis looming. I'm about 99% sure that I'm not just a brain in a dish plugged into a simulator.
Of course not! You're just a brain plugged into a highly advanced organic mobile platform - you should feel good about it :-).
Though the "brain" can successfully control a flight simulation program, more elaborate applications are a long way off, DeMarse said. Because flying a jet isn't all that impressive!?
The kind of flight demonstrated is routinely done by flies with smaller brains.
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The kind of flight demonstrated is routinely done by flies with smaller brains.
Fruit flies have about 100k neurons, according to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...
But that's unfair. F-22's don't have to reproduce.
How did the brain know what situations were good or bad? Were there reward and pain electrodes or something?
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Of course not! You're just a brain plugged into a highly advanced organic mobile platform - you should feel good about it :-).
The "highly advanced" part remains yet to be seen.
Kevin Warwick has a more up to date version of this controlling a robot in his lab at Reading Uni - http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/biomedical/bionics/rat-br... Presumably someone, somewhere has a bathtub of human neurons and is probably using them to try and predict the stock exchange.