Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.

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    19 days ago

    Black Mirror. Should. Not. Be. A. Roadmap.

    Cunk on Earth also did a similar bit with Beethoven.

    Does Charlie Brooker have some kind of enchanted typewriter that can influence the world or something?

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    That’s a pretty misleading headline. The news article is about a cool art installation, in which an artist has used a deceased composer’s DNA to produce electrical signals that are interpreted as music. Still cool, but it’s not “composing music” in the same sense as the alive musician was composing music.

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    They grew a brain organoid from his donated blood white cells that they turned into stem cells. The brain organoid produces electric impulses because that’s what brain cells do. They made something artsy out of those impulses. So it’s completely unrelated to whatever experience the musician could have had. DNA doesn’t store acquired skills nor life memories. They could do that with anyone’s cells and probably get a similar result.

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      Yeah, this was cool until all the steps show it’s not “his brain”. It’s a genetic facsimile.