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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by purui on Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:55PM (#4364235)
25k cells. Even if the brain is fully connected bidirectionally, it has at most 625M connections. Can it be simulated by software?
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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by jostmey on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:41AM (#4364923)
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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