{"id":115848,"date":"2020-11-13T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-grew-tiny-human-brains-and-hooked-them-up-to-robots"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:23:31","slug":"scientists-grew-tiny-human-brains-and-hooked-them-up-to-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-grew-tiny-human-brains-and-hooked-them-up-to-robots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grew-tiny-human-brains-and-hooked-them-up-to-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Careful, you may end up with mini cyborgs!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cThe closer we come to his goal, the more likely we will get a brain that is capable of sentience and of feeling pain, agony and distress,\u201d Christof Koch, chief scientist and president of the Allen Brain Institute, told the <em>NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The human brain is so complex that scientists are still guessing at many aspects of how it works. That\u2019s the appeal of mini-brains \u2014 they\u2019re comparatively <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/writer-mini-brain-own-cells\">simple balls of neurons<\/a> that simulate some characteristics of full brains but which barely scratch the surface of their capabilities. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-stem-cell\/fulltext\/S1934-5909(19)30337-6\">this new study<\/a>, published Thursday in the journal <em>Cell<\/em>, suggests that the mini-brains could be more complex than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some of my colleagues who say, \u2018No, these things will never be conscious,\u2019\u201d Muotri told the <em>NYT<\/em>. \u201cNow I\u2019m not so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careful, you may end up with mini cyborgs! \u201cThe closer we come to his goal, the more likely we will get a brain that is capable of sentience and of feeling pain, agony and distress,\u201d Christof Koch, chief scientist and president of the Allen Brain Institute, told the NYT. The human brain is so complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}