It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.

we have much bigger things to worry about now... once google becomes self aware and develop machines that gain power by eating meat... we're as good as dead.

Why this brain flies on rat cunning - Science - www.theage.com.au