[ExI] Bio/Tech: Embodying cultured Living Neurson via robotics

[nvitamore at austin.rr.com]

Has anyone read "Removing some 'A' from AI: Embodied Cultured Networks"?  

Link: 
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/groups/potter/papers/DagstuhlAIBakkumpreprint.pd
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If neurons are taken out of a brain and continue to create signals that
instruct the robot to perform tasks; what is driving the neurons to give
off signals?  Are these signals of any value?  If so, what?  

Other links that might be helpful:
http://dev.nique.gatech.edu/issues/2006-03-03/focus/1
http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/project.html



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