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Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille marks key step towards biohybrid computing (www.frontiersin.org)
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[–] 8 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

Any research with creating networks of human brain tissue and making it think makes me extremely uncomfortable, ethically.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    It is transmitting a thing, there is nothing more happening yet. Altough of course eventually the goal is making new neurons capable of all the stuff of which a neuron is capable.

    Although I would understand having a total aversion to any kind of artifical neuron. I think there is tremendous potential for healing down that road.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    We don't know what "processing" an input signal means in terms of brain thinking, thoughts, and awareness in full sized brains. We absolutely have no idea what happens in comatose, or "brain-dead" brains, where full memories can be built despite a lack of what we think if as brain activity.

    This is a group of 10,000 neurons, being fed an input, changing it and outputting something the reflects the input. Brains aren't computers, and there's possibly no such thing as "just transmitting".

    The organoid is doing something. Is that doing something a thought? I certainly don't know but I'm not comfortable enough to say it's not.

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