Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong.**
They say their “mini-brain” can sense and respond to its environment.
Other experts describe the work as ‘‘exciting’’ but say calling the brain cells sentient is going too far.
“We could find no better term to describe the device,’’ Dr Kagan says. ''It is able to take in information from an external source, process it and then respond to it in real time.”
- My goodness, as if our world isn’t strange enough!
Just need to dig out an old Binatone TV Game machine and sit her down to play on that for several hours each day, which will have the added bonus of keeping her out of mischief.