Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.
Storm of lying clickbait today.
Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
Submitted 11 months ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/neoscope/musician-resurrected-brain-new-music
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
communism@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
That’s a pretty misleading headline. The news article is about a cool art installation, in which an artist has used a deceased composer’s DNA to produce electrical signals that are interpreted as music. Still cool, but it’s not “composing music” in the same sense as the alive musician was composing music.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
It’s about as close to composing as transcribing the twitches of someone with Parkinson’s.
About as respectful as well, if the researcher is the person characterising this process as composing.
communism@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It seems to be the journalist presenting it as such, but in any case, I don’t think the artists are suggesting it’s equivalent to what the guy made when he was alive. It’s an interesting artwork riffing off of the fact that the person whom the DNA belonged to was a musician.
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
They grew a brain organoid from his donated blood white cells that they turned into stem cells. The brain organoid produces electric impulses because that’s what brain cells do. They made something artsy out of those impulses. So it’s completely unrelated to whatever experience the musician could have had. DNA doesn’t store acquired skills and memories. They could do that with anyone’s cells and probably get a similar result.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
. DNA doesn’t store acquired skills nor life memories
Assassin’s Creed wouldn’t lie to me would it?
fishos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, this was cool until all the steps show it’s not “his brain”. It’s a genetic facsimile.
jackalope@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Not even a facsimile, just a thing which shares the same genetic code and doesn’t resemble his developed brain in any but the most basic ways.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Has anyone seen the show “Pantheon“? This is getting close to it.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This sounds like chatGPT with extra steps and body horror.
PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shhhh! Don’t interrupt him, he’s decomposing.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I notice they didn’t say it was any good.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Some brain cells cobbled together from stem cells that have his DNA. None of the life experiences that made his music. You could likely get similar results with the same technique using the DNA of any random person on the street.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.
Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.
entwine413@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s just a few cells they created on a mesh, it’s not like they’re using a hunk of his brain.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah and it was just a bunch of sedated live rats pinned to little trays with their brains exposed and a bunch of shit stuck everywhere into their bodies that I had to see while working on the lab computers.
I’m not going to get into an argument about whether there’s value in animal research (I think there is) but there’s some horrifying shit that comes with it, and I’m just pointing out that I’ve directly worked with plenty of scientists that are completely unfazed by that shit. So while it may be a few cells on a mesh now, they won’t stop at that.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 months ago
Quite the exaggerated headline from the look of it.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, I always want to clean up the headlines, but apparently it’s against the rules.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
nervous laughter
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Ashley O. doll is starting to glitch out a little. Should I be worried?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
according to the article it’s a tiny smattering of brain cells grown from stem cells derived from his blood, which he donated before he died specifically for this experiment. it is in no way conscious.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
We’ll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Don’t worry too much, it’s not even part of his actual brain. It’s a bunch of brain cells grown from a DNA sample.
If we could make new conscious lifeforms from this, Blade Runner would be a documentary.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It’s a few cerebral cells across a mesh-- I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
Good thing nobody knows for sure!
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
One day we will have the means to reverse every death
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I certainly hope so! I have too much to do for just one life!