Lab-grown brain cells learn to play 1970s video game Pong
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Other experts describe the work as ''exciting'' but say calling the brain cells sentient is going too far. But this is the first time they have been plugged into, and interacted with, an external environment, in this case a video game.grew human brain cells grown from stem cells and some from mouse embryos to a collection of 800,000
Although, with no consciousness, it does not know it is playing Pong in the way a human player would, the researchers stress.Dr Kagan hopes the technology might eventually be used to test treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Cardiff Psychology School honorary research associate Dr Dean Burnett prefers the term ''thinking system''.
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