{"id":210097,"date":"2025-03-30T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/humans-as-hardware-computing-with-biological-tissue"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:20:15","slug":"humans-as-hardware-computing-with-biological-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/humans-as-hardware-computing-with-biological-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-as-hardware-computing-with-biological-tissue2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most computers run on microchips, but what if we\u2019ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool?<\/p>\n<p>As crazy as it sounds, a future in which humans are the ones doing the computing may be closer than we think. In an article <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10935315\/\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>IEEE Access<\/i>, Yo Kobayashi from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at the University of Osaka demonstrates that living tissue can be used to process information and solve complex equations, exactly as a computer does.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement is an example of the power of the computational framework known as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/reservoir+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reservoir computing<\/a>, in which data are input into a complex \u201creservoir\u201d that has the ability to encode rich patterns. A computational model then learns to convert these patterns into meaningful outputs via a neural network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most computers run on microchips, but what if we\u2019ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool? As crazy as it sounds, a future in which humans are the ones doing the computing may be closer than we think. In an article published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210097","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}