Why brain organoids are not conscious yet.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 39233695.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2024.101011 and PMC identifier 11368692.
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Abstract
Rapid advances in human brain organoid technologies have prompted the question of their consciousness. Although brain organoids resemble many facets of the brain, their shortcomings strongly suggest that they do not fit any of the operational definitions of consciousness. As organoids gain internal processing systems through statistical learning and closed loop algorithms, interact with the external world, and become embodied through fusion with other organ systems, questions of biosynthetic consciousness will arise.