Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers
Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers
www.bbc.com
Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells
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This is what the Matrix should have been about.
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Finally we can live in the 90s again.
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Arguably, the best decade we had.
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Fucking batteries?!?! This makes so much more sense.
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Allegedly it was originally about basically this, but they dumbed it down to be about batteries for fear of audiences of the time not understanding.
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Maybe they needed more energy and manipulate the brain cells to grow humans.
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Can you not?
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I read somewhere that when they were envisioning the storyline for The Matrix, the original idea was supposed to be that human grey matter powered it in a computational sense. This kind of tracks, given the brain can perform outstanding feats running at a measly 20 watts or whatever it is, but somehow the story got distorted into its eventual form in which the human body is acting as a grossly inefficient battery.
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And it would explain why Neo is able to modify the Matrix: it's partly running inside his head.
But no, it's an urban legend, it was supposed to be batteries from the first draft.
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For years now I’ve told everyone that the future was gonna be more like 40k and less like Star Trek.
Servitors here we come!!
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I always knew it would end with this
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Wait until you guys find out where hamburgers and chicken wings come from.
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Omnissiah by praised, a new servitors is here!
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Chat is this slavery?
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If it's not now, it will be in a few years. I can't wait for the shocking reveal in 10 years that we've been using fully grown brains in everything.
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In the same way you've enslaved your liver and lungs, sure.
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Isn't this how alita got her brain?
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mini brain, mega eyes
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Future Generations, if there are any, will refer to this as the beginning of the end.
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Oh good! Technological horrors beyond my comprehension
They're not mini human brains though. They're little clusters of cells. The BBC's headline is deliberately (and irresponsibly) provocative and misleading.
What the fuck has happened to the BBC? Last week they had huge headlines about a "cure" for Huntington's disease which was nothing but hyping a drug company press release that was no where near reality.
so brains, but smaller