A response to claims of emergent intelligence and sentience in a dish

Fuat Balci¹, Suliann Ben Hamed², Thomas Boraud³, Sébastien Bouret⁴, Thomas Brochier⁵, Cédric Brun⁶, Jeremiah Y Cohen⁷, Etienne Coutureau⁸, Marc Deffains⁹, Valérie Doyère¹⁰, Georgia G Gregoriou¹¹, J Alexander Heimel¹², Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik⁵, Daeyeol Lee¹³, Eric C Leuthardt¹⁴, Zachary F Mainen¹⁵, Mackenzie Mathis¹⁶, Ilya E Monosov¹⁷, Jérémie Naudé¹⁸, Amy L Orsborn¹⁹, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa²⁰, Emmanuel Procyk²¹, Bernardo Sabatini²², Jérôme Sallet²³, Carmen Sandi¹⁶, Jeffrey D Schall²⁴, Alireza Soltani²⁵, Karel Svoboda⁷, Charles R E Wilson²³, Jan Zimmermann²⁶

Affiliations

¹ University of Manitoba, Department of Biological Sciences, 50 Sifton Rd, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M5, Canada.
² Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR5229 CNRS Université de Lyon, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France.
³ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; CHU de Bordeaux, IMN Clinique, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
⁴ Institut du Cerveau (ICM), INSERM UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), UMR 7289, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille 13005, France.
⁶ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; University Bordeaux Montaigne, Philosophy Department, 33607 Pessac, France.
⁷ Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
⁸ University Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
⁹ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
¹⁰ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, UMR9197, 91400 Saclay, France.
¹¹ University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine and Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Heraklion 70013, Greece.
¹² Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹³ Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
¹⁵ Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹⁶ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: ilya.monosov@gmail.com.
¹⁸ IGF, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
¹⁹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
²⁰ Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
²¹ University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute U1208, Bron, France. Electronic address: emmanuel.procyk@inserm.fr.
²² HHMI, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
²³ University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute U1208, Bron, France.
²⁴ Visual Neurophysiology Centre, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
²⁵ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, USA.
²⁶ University of Minnesota, Department of Neuroscience, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

PMID: 36863319
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.009

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A response to claims of emergent intelligence and sentience in a dish

Fuat Balci et al. Neuron. 2023.

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. 2023 Mar 1;111(5):604-605.

doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.009.

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Affiliations

¹ University of Manitoba, Department of Biological Sciences, 50 Sifton Rd, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M5, Canada.
² Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR5229 CNRS Université de Lyon, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France.
³ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; CHU de Bordeaux, IMN Clinique, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
⁴ Institut du Cerveau (ICM), INSERM UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), UMR 7289, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille 13005, France.
⁶ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; University Bordeaux Montaigne, Philosophy Department, 33607 Pessac, France.
⁷ Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
⁸ University Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
⁹ University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
¹⁰ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, UMR9197, 91400 Saclay, France.
¹¹ University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine and Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Heraklion 70013, Greece.
¹² Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹³ Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
¹⁵ Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹⁶ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: ilya.monosov@gmail.com.
¹⁸ IGF, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
¹⁹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
²⁰ Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
²¹ University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute U1208, Bron, France. Electronic address: emmanuel.procyk@inserm.fr.
²² HHMI, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
²³ University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute U1208, Bron, France.
²⁴ Visual Neurophysiology Centre, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
²⁵ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, USA.
²⁶ University of Minnesota, Department of Neuroscience, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

PMID: 36863319
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.009

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Declaration of interests The writers and key corresponding authors of this document, I.E.M. and E.P., do not have any patents or interests related to our work to declare. The rest of the authors are “signers” and gave comments to improve the manuscript, therefore they were not polled on this issue.

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