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Ricard Solé

@ricard_sole

Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Pathologically curious. Complexity, synthetic transitions, liquid brains, Earth Terraformation. ICREA+SFI professor. Author. Humanist.

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How complex can cognition be in brain organoids? Since they do not sense or act on their environments, they lack cognitive complexity or agency. Without the organism, the "spherical brain" (my drawing) is a fascinating window to evolution and disease but not to actual cognition.

How complex can cognition be in brain organoids? Since they do not sense or act on their environments, they lack cognitive complexity or agency. Without the organism, the "spherical brain" (my drawing) is a fascinating window to evolution and disease but not to actual cognition.