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» This is trippy: Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have grown clumps of neurons from rat brains called 'animats'—and they are able to do simple tasks. "Since our cultured networks are so interconnected, they have some sense of what is going in themselves. We can also feed their activity back to them, to mediate their 'sense of self.'" Daniel Wagenaar, a California Institute of Technology neuroscientist who worked on the animats.