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It's fascinating how brain cells outside of its host can do simple tricks like play pong. Perhaps these scientists need a new marketing department because DishBrain isn't quite appetizing.

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DishBrain's elevator pitch: Neural networks meet fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Maybe they could rebrand to "Brainlent Green".

Yeah, this is ethically-sourced meat, right? You could have a whole pipeline that trains neural nets to farm gold, and then slaughter it for a steady supply of cabeza to every taco truck in these United States.

https://xkcd.com/2173/

I would dare to say that's not even an outrageous proposal, more of a modest.

This month I shall begin to identify as prepackaged cultured meat with a fully-functional neural net.

(It's OK, I'm an expert at Pong.)

That's liver.

When it comes to brains, canonically Hannibal is fond of eating them straight out of the skull, with the owner still alive and conscious.

Maybe they can do more than play pong. Is "the host" something more than machinery, a vehicle, to a big clump of brain cells? Is there a soul? Or is it all an illusion

I've tried cow brain twice and it was delicious.

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