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A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator

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Re: A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator

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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.

It has far more mobility and longevity that any machine we're able to produce at the moment.

Re: A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator

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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.

... or is bathing in them. ew.
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