This is a preprint, not yet fully approved for publication, but the lead authors all have prior relevant published work.

Unsupervised sensory-motor associative learning by human brain explant in-a-dish enables movement imitation by robot

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/unsupervised-sensory-motor-associative-learning-by-human-brain-explant-tdOky9XE7Q

If you don’t like the paywall, I’ve got most of the doc here…
dazvoz.com/document.pdf

This video also gives a concise summary.
https://youtu.be/i2YQUXykYM0?si=kbulLdAB3TUhCEOX

Briefly:
Slices of human cortex taken during autopsy are reanimated and kept alive, connected to electrodes that control a robotic hand that plays a keyboard, with the electrical output of the keyboard fed back to the brain slice via other electrodes. After a certain amount of exploration, the brain sample plays small sequences.
Then, a living human plays small tunes repeatedly, with that signal being sent to the brain sample. The brain sample “learns” the tune and plays it.

Spooky. I wonder how much of a brain can be “reanimated” in this way.

Futurama

Bubblecar said:

Spooky. I wonder how much of a brain can be “reanimated” in this way.

all of it

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

Spooky. I wonder how much of a brain can be “reanimated” in this way.

all of it

So when will we see “The Man With Two Brains” play out in real life?

He is saying K-I-L-L- M-E over and over again…

Hey I wonder if something like this could be used for voting in the US senate.