A University of Florida scientist has grown a living "brain" that can fly a simulated plane

Good. Now they need to grow a whole bunch of them for congress. STAT!

hehe that's a great point! I was thinking something other than operating a flight simulator would've been more useful?

45 minutes from my house, I wonder if I could get a tour.
I was wondering what they did with George W. Bush's brain. He didn't have one so they grew him one. lol

I do like neuroscience. However, it is very complicated, and if it can alleviate some unhappiness/illness, good. Would it be utopia if we paid as much attention to the much simpler networks of global economics and power with a view to discovering methods of alleviating mass population suffering of illness and unhappiness?

They're trying to find out about epilepsy by teaching a rat brain to fly? Does the brain have enough cells to get a rush? Now pigs might fly.

I am reminded of the 'spacing guild navigators' of Dune. Wouldn't it be great?

I want to know how this "brain" "knows" what its' objective is in flying this plane.

i just hope that our insights into the micro as well as unto the macro cosmos will not lead us just 4 playing the good old `Babooshka` ..

Am I the only one who is creeped out by this???

It does have a certain 1950's B-movie quality about it, doesn't it?

I wonder if it sees the dancer turning clockwise or counter-clockwise?

I wonder if it sees the dancer turning clockwise or counter-clockwise?

LOL!!!!!!