http://www.livescience.com/39247-mini-human-brains-grown-in-dish.html?cmpid=532496
How do they know for sure it is not sentient and cannot think? Even if at an elementary level?
It developed retinal tissue (and the photo shows the 'brown eye', I assume the colour of the 'host' from which the cells were taken?) and ‘cells in conditions that allowed them to form a tissue called neuroectoderm, which develops into the nervous system.’ for gods’ sakes!
We don’t even know how the brain works completely, other than some of it’s functions. Is it solely (souly?) what makes us or is it just an organic machine, our bodies, housing?
Things are not scifi anymore!
(and, for your convenience, you can just click on the site addys and it will take you there in a new window, or copy and paste, whatever makes you happy.
How do they know for sure it is not sentient and cannot think? Even if at an elementary level?
It developed retinal tissue (and the photo shows the 'brown eye', I assume the colour of the 'host' from which the cells were taken?) and ‘cells in conditions that allowed them to form a tissue called neuroectoderm, which develops into the nervous system.’ for gods’ sakes!
We don’t even know how the brain works completely, other than some of it’s functions. Is it solely (souly?) what makes us or is it just an organic machine, our bodies, housing?
Things are not scifi anymore!
(and, for your convenience, you can just click on the site addys and it will take you there in a new window, or copy and paste, whatever makes you happy.