Wired berichtet über die Forschungen von Steve Potter. Der Forscher am “Laboratory for Neuroengineering” züchtet “Klumpen” von Ratten-Hirnzellen in Petrischalen und vernetzt diese mit Robotik-Technologie:

When Rene Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am,” the philosopher probably didn’t imagine a stamp-sized clump of rat neurons grown in a dish, hooked to a computer.

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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology figured they could learn more from neuron clumps that acted more like real brains, so they’ve developed “neurally controlled animats” — a few thousand rat neurons grown atop a grid of electrodes and connected to a robot body or computer-simulated virtual environment.

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- Transhumanismus: Das Hirn im PC
- Mission to build a simulated brain begins