{"id":240946,"date":"2026-07-15T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-keep-teaching-life-to-play-doom-but-why"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:05:57","slug":"scientists-keep-teaching-life-to-play-doom-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-keep-teaching-life-to-play-doom-but-why","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Keep Teaching Life to Play Doom, But Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jNzI1DVqlB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)<br \/> Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath\">http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> Get a Wonderful Person Tee: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> More cool designs are on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about why Doom is used in scientific experiments involving learning.<br \/> Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2602.11632\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2602.11632<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/corticallabs.com\/cl1\">https:\/\/corticallabs.com\/cl1<\/a><br \/> \u2022 Rats in Doom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-scien\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-scien<\/a>\u2026<br \/> #doom #biology #learning.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Doom runs on everything.<br \/> 1:03 Brain organoids and why they are used.<br \/> 2:50 New breakthrough \u2014 a biological computer.<br \/> 3:50 How cells learns to play Doom.<br \/> 5:10 Rats and Doom.<br \/> 6:20 Organoids and engineering problems.<br \/> 7:00 Implications for biology and information sciences.<br \/> 9:08 Conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and please subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow!<br \/> bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4<br \/> or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF<\/p>\n<p>The hardware used to record these videos:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-keep-teaching-life-to-play-doom-but-why\">Continue reading \u201cScientists Keep Teaching Life to Play Doom, But Why?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath. Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath. More cool designs are on Amazon: https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1318,1523,1761,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-bitcoin","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240946","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=240946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}