14th October, 2022.
Yes: it’s finally Friday.
Which means … I have to pick up some medications: and put in for some more.
It’s a chore: but one with an (minor) upside.
I get to have a healthy walk.
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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it already: but I watch the news.
In amongst the looming financial crisis?
Was this piece: which tells us how a group of scientists have grown brain cells in a lab, taught them how to play Pong, and saw the cells improve at the game.
It’s interesting to read, I know that.
From what I could gather?
Many are saying this could lead to all sorts of discoveries into the science of the brain.
Which would be good: a successful treatment — if not a cure — for Alzheimer’s would be good.
It could also lead to a lot of help for other neurological conditions.
And … ? Some of the people the BBC News Channel talked to felt it could be extremely helpful in computer science: revealing new ways to build processors.
Personally, though?
I immediately thought of William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy.
The second novel, Count Zero, features a computer scientist who’s invented a new form of biological computer processors: built from human cancer cells.
Additionally? A mental image kept cropping up.
Of zombies running around, and yelling ‘Braaaaaaains.’
It struck me lab-grown brain cells would be a humane way of feeding them.
Ummm …
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