{"id":159390,"date":"2023-03-02T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T01:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-plan-thinking-biocomputers-with-human-neurons"},"modified":"2023-03-02T19:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T01:23:39","slug":"scientists-plan-thinking-biocomputers-with-human-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-plan-thinking-biocomputers-with-human-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Scientists plan \u2018thinking\u2019 biocomputers with human neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-plan-thinking-biocomputers-with-human-neurons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a roadmap for how to build tiny biocomputers out of human neurons or brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use a culture of the human brain to show something which is not just living cells. We can show that this is learning, this is memorising, this is making decisions, it is possibly even at some point, \u2018sentient\u2019 in the sense that it can sense its environment,\u201d Professor Thomas Hartung, a Johns Hopkins \u2018organoids\u2019 researcher, told <em>Cosmos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the explorers who have stumbled into a completely new field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a roadmap for how to build tiny biocomputers out of human neurons or brain cells. \u201cWe can use a culture of the human brain to show something which is not just living cells. We can show that this is learning, this is memorising, this is making decisions, it is possibly even at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159390","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}