Stars, Cells, and God | Human Brain Tissue Controls Robot | News of the Day

Reasons to Believe Podcast

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Fuz reports on the work by a research team from Tianjin University in China, who, recently stole headlines when they announced that they developed a chip that used human brain tissue to control a robotics system. This remarkable breakthrough (called organoid intelligence) generates excitement and also raises some profound ethical and theological questions.

In this episode Fuz explains:

• How this technology works
• Why researchers are pursuing the development of biocomputing and organoid intelligence
• Ethical concerns associated with this work
• Christian perspective on organoid intelligence

Links & Resources:

• Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Used to Control Robot
• Organoid Intelligence (OI): The New Frontier in Biocomputing and Intelligence-in-a Dish
• A Christian Perspective on Living Electrodes
• Brain Organoids Cultivate the Case for Human Exceptionalism