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The Skeptics Guide #901 - Oct 15 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is Pong a Patternicity?

When you play nerve cell networks in vitro, they automatically do something called kindling. This is really typical when there's no sensory inputs or outputs. And so they are basically inducing or simulating inputs and Outputs with these different patterns of electrical activity. They're using Pong almost metaphorically to say, we are inducing organization and we are getting non-random feedback.

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