Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.
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Aren’t regions of the brain associated with function? What region is picked for harvesting?
Brain stem is probably predictable but rather basic.