{"id":762,"date":"2026-07-25T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/a-petri-dish-of-human-brain-cells-is-currently-playing-doom-should-we-be-worried-games-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:15:02","slug":"a-petri-dish-of-human-brain-cells-is-currently-playing-doom-should-we-be-worried-games-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/a-petri-dish-of-human-brain-cells-is-currently-playing-doom-should-we-be-worried-games-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? | Games | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAbstract reasoning, mathematics and language are relatively recent in evolutionary terms, which is partly why computers excel at them. But motor control and probabilistic decision-making are things we\u2019ve inherited through millions of years of evolution. Robots may be very good at solving maths problems, but we\u2019re still trying to build robots that can walk properly.\u201d Biological systems like the fruit fly simulation, he says, might eventually power robots, drones and other machines that need to navigate the messy unpredictability of the real world.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/mar\/16\/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs\">www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/mar\/16\/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbstract reasoning, mathematics and language are relatively recent in evolutionary terms, which is partly why computers excel at them. But motor control and probabilistic decision-making are things we\u2019ve inherited through millions of years of evolution. Robots may be very good at solving maths problems, but we\u2019re still trying to build robots that can walk properly.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,173],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consciousness","tag-robotics-morveks-paradox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}