Floating inside a petri dish in a lab at Cambridge University, a single disjointed muscle twitched. Normally that's not news. But in this case, the surgically-dissected muscle is controlled by a slice of isolated brain tissue grown entirely inside the lab. As creepy as that sounds, the system doesn't represent consciousness in a jar. Rather, […]
A Lab-Grown Brain Twitched an Isolated Muscle. Here's Why That's Amazing
Singularity Hub - 18 Apr 2019 16:00
Floating inside a petri dish in a lab at Cambridge University, a single disjointed muscle twitched. Normally that's not news. But in this case, the surgically-dissected muscle is controlled by a slice of isolated brain tissue grown entirely inside the lab. As creepy as that sounds, the system doesn't represent consciousness in a jar. Rather, […]
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