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purui on Aug 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control...

25k cells. Even if the brain is fully connected bidirectionally, it has at most 625M connections. Can it be simulated by software?

jostmey on Aug 10, 2012 [–]

Yeah, with about ten lines of code. The neurons are acting as a simple PID controller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

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