Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

What it found

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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3. Beyond mimicry: a framework for evaluating genuine intelligence in artificial systems.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2025
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4. Electrophysiological insights with brain organoid models: a brief review.BMB reports · 2024
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5. How to Integrate Neuroethics into a Neuroscience Course - And Drive Student Engagement with Core Concepts.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2024
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6. Entropy and Cross-Level Orderliness in Light of the Interconnection between the Neural System and Consciousness.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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7. Brain organoids and organoid intelligence from ethical, legal, and social points of view.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2023
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8. Knowledge graphs of ethical concerns of cerebral organoids.Cell proliferation · 2022
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9. Research models of neurodevelopmental disorders: The right model in the right place.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022
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10. Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Complex Oscillatory Waves Emerging from Cortical Organoids Model Early Human Brain Network Development.2019

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