{"id":167527,"date":"2023-07-14T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-are-trying-to-grow-neurons-that-can-play-doom"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:25:33","slug":"scientists-are-trying-to-grow-neurons-that-can-play-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-are-trying-to-grow-neurons-that-can-play-doom","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are trying to grow neurons that can play Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-trying-to-grow-neurons-that-can-play-doom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, <em>Doom<\/em>. Who knows where we\u2019d be today if it weren\u2019t for the innovation that made you the granddaddy of first-person shooters? Probably one of the things that\u2019s helping to keep id Software\u2019s iconic game alive after all these years is the fact that it can be ported to just about anything. It\u2019s even possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/modder-puts-doom-inside-doom-pc-hack\/\">play <em>Doom<\/em> inside <em>Doom<\/em> itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, many people have attempted to see what crazy methods they can to play this legendary FPS. Now, some scientists are doing something a little different. Namely, they want to see if it\u2019s possible to grow their own neurons that can be taught to play games. And yes, they want to see if they will be able to control <em>Doom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A video from the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thethoughtemporium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Thought Emporium<\/a> goes into detail about the hypothesis. The basic idea is to be able to hook up some lab-grown rat neurons to a computer that will be able to play <em>Doom<\/em>, at least in a rudimentary fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Doom. Who knows where we\u2019d be today if it weren\u2019t for the innovation that made you the granddaddy of first-person shooters? Probably one of the things that\u2019s helping to keep id Software\u2019s iconic game alive after all these years is the fact that it can be ported to just about anything. It\u2019s even possible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167527","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}