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Hmm... This is a little misleading. It looks like they're using brain matter as a circuit, but not so much a conscious brain making decisions and having circuits interpret that.

The researchers aim to get the robot to learn, by applying different signals as it moves into predefined positions.

This line speaks most loudly that it's just a circuit.

Am I mistaken?



From what i understood, the brain doesn't make decisions, it just reacts to stimulation.

I think today's xkcd is appropriate :D

http://xkcd.com/465/


It does make decisions, at first it just reacts to stimulation for example it runs it into a wall and they give it a shock, next time when it sees the wall it doesn't run into it! Which is pretty amazing.




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