Robot with a rat brain

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This robot steers clear of obstacles thanks to a pile of rat brain cells.

Footage courtesy Reading University

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[CyberSword10]

Are you a catholic? The rat the cells were extracted from didn't even die, they didn't even use the entire brain.

[Ruttie2]

´´Rat´s brain´´ is a misconception. You mean, ´´Rat´s brain cells´´. Well, that still doesn´t make it a feeling robot. The cells are extracted from an organism and will not connect to a computer. That´s like connecting brain cells to a kitchen table and expect it to feel. If you mix organisms with robots, it won´t make the robot ´´feel´´ nor ´´conscious´´. It would be an electric or a mechanical augmentation. Which is an entirely different concept. Ignorance must be bliss.

[Ruttie2]

That´s because it´s the only thing you can comprehend. You wouldn´t suggest that there´s something more benevolent at work. Because you wouldn´t be able to understand that.

[Ruttie2]

No, that´s a materialistic point of view. It´s purely based on spiritual ignorance. I´m not a religious person, but a mind cannot be typed into a computer. Our brain is just a computer, it is the only thing we can measure and see. Our consciousness is invisible, you cannot catch it, store it on an SD card. It´s something today´s science cannot explain nor comprehend.

[cristobal vio]

Maybe we are more complex, but it think we are quite the same thing, adapted to respond according to our inputs.

[cristobal vio]

why do you think that we are so different from this 'cyborg'?

I would have said so, but im not sure anymore.

Those feeling you talk about, aren't they entirely generated in our brains depending on the input they get from other nerves? So if you input those electrical impulses to this neural network (or rudimentary brain) and they react to them.. maybe they react because they 'feel somehow'. Even our consciousness is generated in our brain with 'god only knows' which purposes.

[TheEpicAwesomeGamer]

10 years later: GLaDOS.

[andrewkocak]

John Dies at the End!!

anyone? anyone?

[Nevir202]

You realize that the brain cells were cultured and not extracted directly from a rat right?

[dbfan2scfan]

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