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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

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Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.

Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.

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Interpretations are intentional, transformative etc.

Automating that is not.
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  How is it not transformative and intentional to reinterpret neurological signals as music?
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    The researchers are doing the composing, not the organoid. The organoid is just existing.
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      Okay…? Your point?

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