Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play “Pong”

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of. 

Video: https://youtu.be/9ksLuRoEq6A

Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created “mini-brains“ consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports. The cells are placed on top of a microelectrode array that analyzes the neural activity. 
— Read on futurism.com/the-byte/brain-cells-play-pong

Physicists explain how the brain might connect to the quantum realm

Our brains are composed of cells called neurons, and their combined activity is believed to generate consciousness. Each neuron contains microtubules, which transport substances to different parts of the cell. The Penrose-Hameroff theory of quantum consciousness argues that microtubules are structured in a fractal pattern which would enable quantum processes to occur.
— Read on www.inverse.com/science/consciousness-and-quantum-physics/amp

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