Just a Brain in a vat

[AChimp]

What are you all so paranoid about?

These are not brains that think.

They are only being called "brains" for lack of a better term and the fact that the media has to dumb things down for laymen. The petridish rat neural cells are not going to take over the world. The cells are being used as a better version of what we've been able to simulate already inside a computer with neural nets. The only thing that's changed now is that the cells are performing the calculations rather than our slow, sequential computers simulating them.