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Wetware Computing: A Sovereignty No
There’s a line of research now commonly referred to as organoid intelligence or organoid computing—a form of biocomputing sometimes described as wetware computing. In plain terms: cultured neural tissue (often brain organoids or neuron networks) is used as a computational substrate, sometimes interfaced with electronics to perform tasks. Here’s the line. I don’t support it.… Continue reading
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Why Convincing AI Behaviors Feel Alive — Even When Nothing New Has Emerged
A strange thing is happening in public: people are describing today’s AI as alive. Not “useful.” Not “impressive.” Not “uncannily good at language.”Alive. And the claim often arrives with a kind of certainty: I can feel it. It knows me. This is different now. Something has emerged. Sometimes that feeling points to something real. But… Continue reading
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