Australian researchers have produced a potential new discovery in which they nourished groups of brain cells in a lab dish and gave them the instructions to play the game "Pong." Because educating brain cells to play "pong" had never been done before, the study team put a lot of effort into it and altered the recipe.

It should be emphasised that all of this research was conducted in the field of "sentiment estimation," and it has prepared the way for future studies in this field by experts. The study's findings have been published in the journal "Neuron," nevertheless.

Not to mention, this undeniably cool project, called the "dish brain," looks like an episode of 800,000 human and mouse neurons embedded in various microelectrodes.

The scientists have programmed these neurons to continue doing what they do after receiving an electrical signal, and they've programmed them in a way that's different from previous approaches to studying areas like neurodevelopment and disease.

What exactly happens in the classic arcade game Pong is that the neuron cells act like paddles and bounce the balls back in a predictable manner. Dr. Adeel Razi, co-author of the study, said, "This new ability to teach cell cultures to perform a task in which they exhibit emotion—sensing to return the ball By controlling the pedal—opens up new discoveries—possibilities that will have far-reaching consequences for technology, health, and society.

On the other hand, Professor Carl Friston, who is also a co-author of the study, said, "The beautiful and important aspect of this work depends on equipping neurons with sensations — feedback — and, crucially, the ability to act on it. . Their world. What's remarkable is that both cultures learned how to make their worlds more predictable by practicing this. It's remarkable because you can't teach this kind of self-organization. Just because - Unlike pets - these little brains have no sense of reward and punishment."

The team says that there is nothing to worry as this method cannot be used for any negative purposes as it is not good enough to be used for any other means. To that end, Professor Tara Spire-Jones, program lead at the UK Dementia Research Institute, said, "Don't worry, while these dishes of neurons can change their response based on stimulus, it's science in a dish. There are no fi-style intelligences, these are simple circuit reactions.