interesting, but they are not doing anything, really, being just cells on a mesh substrate.
here is something more interesting...also not dangerous (at least not yet): xenobots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL64jqYn4CEBefore we would have any danger from those little clamps, imho, we would be in a real one from mechanical one's.
Totally unrelated (because it was not organic), but it made me think about Black mirror's "cookie".
Interesting but I'm much more interested in neural networks that can be used for navigation and exploration.
OT: Gotcha...to me, it would be easier to build those using silicon than cells, but I could be totally wrong.
We still don't know what consciousness is, amazingly, with some wild theories proposed by few scientists, like R. Penrose (something about quantum coherence/decoherence in brain cells microtubules).
https://nautil.us/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute-236591/Minsky’s claims compelled Penrose to write The Emperor’s New Mind, arguing that human thinking will never be emulated by a machine. The book had the feel of an extended thought experiment on the non-algorithmic nature of consciousness and why it can only be understood in relation to Gödel’s theorem and quantum physics.
...but here we are, just 6 years later, and at least
some aspects of human thinking were already emulated by a machine, it seems.
The question remains only on how deep this emulation goes.
...back to bitcoin (which is flat)...missing Chart Buddy.