Nerve cells have the ability to self-organize into strongly interacting networks, even when grown in a Petri dish. Controlling the geometry of such cell cultures might be all that is needed to set up neuronal computing devices.
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Wolf, F., Geisel, T. Logic gates come to life. Nature Phys 4, 905–906 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1142
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