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'Brain' In A Dish Acts As Autopilot, Living Computer (2004)
- joe_the_user 12y agoWell, the story is ten years old but scanning Google, I think the scientist who did this is still at it. Still, it may have gone as far as its going by itself. However, one thing that occurs to me is that one of the main arguments against full brain simulation is that a brain too many parts that are too complex. It seems to be that a construct like this might be much simpler and so might be something that the European Brain Project and similar efforts might target to understand braincell computation.
- wuliwong 12y agoIn the lab I worked in, we literally studied two neurons coupled together. Simplistic networks are good for learning certain things in isolation but some phenomena might only be the result of complex systems and studying small networks may never lead us towards understanding these complex phenomena. The obvious one is "consciousness" but even things like sensory perception which in part is the result of complex, distributed calculations would difficult if not impossible to understand from studying simple networks.
- rdlecler1 12y agoHarnessing the principles of neurogenisis may be the only scaleable way to build large comples ANNs. If so, it will be interesting to see what role evolutionary development (evolved genes encoding the developmental process).