Don't Believe The Hype | Data Centers Powered by Human Brain Cells
Sasha Latypova | substack.com/@sashalatypova
Here is what the highly learned colleagues with many MDs and PhDs behind their names are promoting as “Official!!” “Human-Silicon Hybrids!!!”:
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Did this make your skin crawl? Did it make you fear the BigTech Transuman AgendaTM! even more? Do you know what this “Brain-Powered-Datacenter” really is?
Short Answer: An ingeniously rebranded cell culture assay. The type that’s used to produce many bench top assays to test drug candidates in vitro, and to perform other biomedical research. That’s it. Brain-computer interface it is not.
End of TLDR. For the nerds in this class, let’s review in more detail.
The shiny propaganda press releases by Cortical Labs (Australia) and Singaporean government claim that they are building data centers powered by human brain cells:
Cortical Labs turns living brain cells into computers
Cortical Labs is developing a fundamentally different kind of computer: instead of doing all the information processing with silicon transistors, it uses living neurons connected to conventional computer hardware.
The idea is to combine the adaptability of biological brain cells with the precision and programmability of electronics. The result is a system that can receive information, change its neural activity in response, and send signals back to software.
The Singapore project you linked brings this concept into data-center infrastructure. The National University of Singapore (NUS), DayOne and Cortical Labs are working together to test biological computers in a research environment, with the intention of moving toward commercial deployment.
Cortical Labs will even sell you a “brain powered computer”, which looks like this:
What they claim as “real neurons” inside, are not neurons at all! This is explained further below. For now let’s look at the system. The insides of this thing look like this:
It has yucky “brain” (not brain! thank God!) cellular culture goo inside. The CL1 also includes systems for maintaining the cells’ living conditions. [Not]-neurons need appropriate nutrients, temperature and other environmental controls. The manufacturer claims they will survive for 6 months in this box. I don’t know what happens afterwards, possibly another spoonful of the “brain” (not! thank God!) needs to be acquired.
If you stack these boxes in a cabinet, you can pretend you have a “brain-computer datacenter” and issue a shiny propaganda press release together with Singaporean government, hoping (not unreasonably) that both, the mainstream and alternative charlatans will copy-paste and trumpet this nonsense, and lots of gullible people will fall for the hype:
It is important to read the small font. By now all my readers should know that “prototype” = fake.
Let’s look under the hood of the “brain” box:
1. First, they grow the “neurons” that have nothing to do with actual neurons. Still. Yuck.
Cortical Labs’ CL1 system is described as a cultured neural network grown on a chip. The process starts with “human cells that can be converted into stem cells” and then differentiated into [pseudo] neurons, as follows:
Obtain donor cells: A blood sample is processed to isolate peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), which include lymphocytes and monocytes. Human red blood cells do not have a nucleus, which is required for the cells to be able to “de-differentiate” and then “re-differentiate”, or morph into new types of cells. I have written about cellular rejuvenation processes here. Among other biological limitations, mammalian nucleus-free red blood cells prevent us from being able to re-grow limbs, in contrast to amphibians, whose blood cells contain nuclei and perform de- and re-differentiation trick easily. Hence, with a human blood sample as a starting point, the focus is on obtaining nucleated types of cells from the blood - the PBMCs) which are present in the circulation at very small quantities:
Grow colonies out of the cell samples in petri dishes: In this step, the initial cells are doused with chemical reagents and media to “proliferate” them, i.e. to grow more of them over about 1 month. The reagents include “recombinant cytokines” such as SCF, FLT3 ligand (FLT3L), IL-3, and IL-6, which are manufactured using “recombinant DNA technology”, i.e. the same basic methods that used to make all “synthetic” bio-bullshit - 100% chemicals “grown” in e.coli (feces bacteria) and/or other cells: yeast cells, or hamster ovary cells, or aborted fetal cells, etc. E.coli is the most commonly used method. The “recombinant cytokines” are chemical compounds that are claimed to be “identical” to substances that your body makes for signaling. Please note that it is my informed opinion that “bio-chemistry” is hogwash (see “genetics was built on bad chemistry”) based on religious beliefs of the Cult of Scientism that the human body is composed of chemicals. It is not: while it can be decomposed into chemicals by destructive testing techniques, it is not possible to forward-synthesize living things or functional parts of the living things from chemical reagents and feces (e.coli). Life is not emergent from chemical parts sloshing in a broth of feces. When the “synthetic biology” cult snows you with impenetrable bio-chemical jargon, just remember - all of their “building blocks of life” are produced at chemical factories of Fujifilm, Kodak and similar companies. Here is a short video I previously published, as a reminder of how this nonsense is made (production of oligonucleotides, fully automatic toxic chemical washes in a chemical reactor):
The list of chemicals used in the above process can be found in this article. It will astound you. Read more about bad chemistry of bio-chemistry/genetics in this very informative article by Unbekoming .
Introduce additional chemical reagents, the “reprogramming factors”, into the culture of now proliferated cells that have been grown ex-vivo for 1+ month:
In this step, the chemical-infused and proliferated cells are exposed to Sendai viral vectors carrying OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 andc-MYC(!). These “factors” are made in the same way from the same toxic chemical shyte as explained in the YouTube video above. TheSicenceTM! claims that the expression of these “factors” initiates the transition toward “pluripotency” (i.e. alleged conversion of adult differentiated cells into primordial stem cells).
I discussed the “eternal youth factors” (Sendai or Yamanaka) a few months ago. Here is a link to my post where I discussed a “youth serum” from Harvard (David Sinclair) that was recently greenlit by Bobby’s FDA for human clinical trials:
Years earlier, Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka discovered that four proteins could turn an adult cell into a stem cell — a Nobel Prize-winning experiment that proved an epigenetic reset was possible. Right, of course, it’s Nobel Prize winning! But directly putting those four proteins, called “Yamanaka factors”, into an animal or a human had long been considered a bad idea, in part because one of them is thecancer-promoting proteinc-MYC.
Oops. Yeah, there is a thing about cellular immortality. It’s called cancer:“Other labs had put in all four [Yamanaka factors] and found that it kills mice and causes tumors,” Sinclair said.
You can read the rest in the above linked post. C-MYC is a functional equivalent of synthetic SV-40, a toxic chemical that can penetrate inside the cytoplasm, and induce rapid and uneven cell division aka, cancer.
Remember that normal human cells of any kind do not survive outside of the human body very long. In order to culture and proliferate the small sample of normal cells from human blood, the cells are poisoned with numerous toxic reagents including known carcinogen C-MYC resulting in rapid sustained division and reduction or elimination of apoptosis (normal cell death)! Now, what do we call those cells that divide rapidly and do not die?
Cancer! duh.
TheScienceTM! says that “many cells will not successfully reprogram”. Another duh - the cells are poisoned by “proliferation and growth factors” and many will succumb to this poisoning. The ones that become resistant, convert into a culture of cancerous cells that can be turned into stable commercial lines and called a fuzzy, cuddly, poetic name - “stem cells”.
Therefore:
The alleged “brain cells” in the Cortical Labs box are …. drumroll …. cancerous cells!
Moving on to the rest of the process:
2. The [not] neurons are connected to a silicon chip
Neurons communicate using electrical signals. The entire network of nerves in the body runs the direct electric current, mediated by structured water (negatively charged, pure gel-like state) and bulk water (positively charged water carrying solutes). A computer chip, meanwhile, can generate and measure electrical signals with great precision. Cortical Labs uses a microelectrode array: an electronic interface with many tiny electrodes that can stimulate the neurons and record their activity. Right here we see that the [not]-neurons are not driving any “computing” themselves. They are getting “stimulated” by electric shocks. Kind of like those pointless high school experiments with getting the frog legs muscle jerking by electric shocks. Cortical Labs hype claims that this is a “two directional” closed loop “computing” rather than a very conventional one-way assay experiment (shock the cells grown in medium with electricity, with or without test article such as a drug being researched, record feedback).
3. Can a collection of [not]-neurons actually compute?
This is the most interesting part. It can’t.
Traditional computers execute explicit instructions using transistors. The neurons are not following a conventional software program stored inside them: despite all “synthetic biology” pseudoscientific propaganda to the contrary, people’s bodies are not “hardware” executing some sort of genetic-chemical “software” instructions. In the Cortical Labs box, nothing is different. The external digital hardware and conventional software controls the task and its feedback, while the cancer cells produce jerks to the electrical shocks for 6 months before they finally die in that stuffy little box. I am sure they stink, too. Nothing here is different from any conventional petri dish cell assay except the box enclosure and closed-loop operation of the system. If anything, this set up is much more limited vs a conventional cell assay where researchers can fix issues arising from the inherent instability of cellular cultures.
4. What is this cancer soup-in-a-box good for?
The best use of this nonsense is running psyop campaigns to convince the gullible that “brain-computer” interface is a possibility and something to be terrified of. It launches a million posts from the usual grifters who advertise themselves and “alternative”, “resistance”,. “gold standard science” outlets, etc., only to uncritically copy a bullshit press release from Cortical Labs and fear monger to their audience who all eat it up, because their trusted $cience mouthpiece says so.
Having said that, potential scientific applications of the Cortical Labs box are not much different from standard cell assays used in medical research. However, given that the cells in question are massively poisoned and likely cancerous, it’s hard for me to see much utility in this “closed loop” system over the conventional lab techniques.
There is also an ethical question about the use of human-derived [not] neural tissue. Cultured [not]-neural networks are not equivalent to conscious human brains, and there is no basis for assuming that the CL1 has human-like awareness.
In Conclusion:
The human brain-computer interface is not possible. Human bodies and computers are fundamentally incompatible, as explained in detail above and in linked articles. Human intelligence is not emergent from chemistry or silicon or AI/LLMs, no matter how many trillions of dollars have been pumped into these failed ideas. Lab tricks, like the cancer-in-a-box Cortical Labs system will be thrown at you by propaganda machinery from all sides of freedom. The propagandists want you to believe the insanities, hype and vaporware. This is the same tactic that was used to make millions of people believe in a “novel virus” that “evolved in bats and jumped in the wet market”, and then - “oops, we lied it was a GOF virus, Fauci bad”! Many in health freedom movement STILL believe that some of this nonsense was true, and that public health mistakes were made. I hope as more people become aware of how to read through the lies of the Cult of Scientism, we will collectively become more intelligent or at least, less prone to fall for bullshit.
Original Article: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/omg-i-was-wrong-about-nanobot-things
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