"rat neurons in a petri dish" (1 Viewer)

[Pantone247]

creepy...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3096973.stm

"Gripping three coloured markers positioned above a white canvas, a robotic arm churns out drawings akin to that of a three-year-old. Its guidance comes from around 50,000 rat neurons in a petri dish 19,000 kilometres away"

 

[benni]

ewwwwwww

thats pretty disturbing

 

[comet]

they call a new class of creative beings: "the semi-living artist"

should be familiar to some members!

 

[Lord Damian]

fascinating, yet at the same time

THE SCARIEST FUCKING THING I HAVE EVER READ

 

[Lord Damian]

hold on - isn't this how Large Mound designed the cover to RaisedOnRock?

 

[Pantone247]

I'm just fascinated by the phrase

"rat neurons in a petri dish"

I think I'm going to have to start a fucked up technicolor acid trash group, just so I can use that phrase as the title of our first record...

 

[Lord Damian]

I'm just fascinated by the phrase

"rat neurons in a petri dish"

I think I'm going to have to start a fucked up technicolor acid trash group, just so I can use that phrase as the title of our first record...

too late, i've already myspaced it.

 

[Pantone247]

actually fuck that shit... painting is for gay rat neurons... looks what they we've been doing since 2004!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/


A Florida scientist has developed a "brain" in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.

The "living computer" was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat's brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish....

....When linked up to an F-22 jet flight simulator, the brain and the simulator established a two-way connection similar to how neurons receive and interpret signals from each other to control our bodies.

Gradually the brain learnt to control the flight of the plane based on the information it received about flight conditions.*

so fucking scared...




*this sentance will be the second album title...

 

[snakybus]

what about this:

Scientists in Wilmington, Illinois, have developed a working, living "brain" that functions not unlike the human brain. Using neurons extracted from rats, the living tissue is, to all intents and purposes, a living, thinking, organic computer. Scientists have even managed it to "think" creatively, by using various organic, chemical and visual stimulants, such as cannabis, alcohol and the film "Sanjuro". The "petri dish "brain" has already written an album full of songs but refuses to let it be heard. "I just don't think the guitars sound right" it commented. Last heard, it was thinking of moving to New York. "Fuck this hell hole, it's the pitts," it said. Reuters

 

[Pantone247]

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etc, etc, etc, etc...

 

[MDR]

Who'd have thought that rats were so creative?