Semjeza

Two points:

• using stem cells so it remained biological brain cells, rather than a mechanical reproduction.
• they directly stimulate it with electricity and it then has a response to that stimuli, they don’t seem to be hooking it up to check for additional processes; it’s a step up, I guess, from direct stimulation for motor function in a frog - but not anything more revolutionary.

So, guess I’ll need to update my post slightly, but the core point remains.

That said, I felt that they were saying for half of it that they were running Doom on a braincell using computer, rather than getting a braincell computer to respond to it for half the article. Oh well.

Sadly if you need to make ppts regularly, OpenOffice and Libra Office don’t come close to Powerpoint in terms of features…

And sadly I’m far too incompetent a coder (and already torn 4 ways between family, job, MtG:judging, and rest and hobbies as I’m hugely introverted) to be able to help change that.

That said, the word processor, spreadsheet, and graphic design application are all a head better than the proprietary versions I’ve tried.

We’ve yet to be able to replicate it from the old parts of meat we know are involved in it with the addition of electricity in the ways it should need in even the much simpler flesh of insects, amphibians, and reptiles. Best we can do is make a muscle twitch without causing observable thought/emergent nureaul processes.

So even if we can, we’re so far from it that thinking we’re on the cusp seems delusional to me.

Edit: as response shows, we have in fact also gotten it brain cell “twitches” by direct stimulation of braincells. Sadly it didn’t seem to be rigged up to measure overall brain activity.