PLAYING GOD IN A PETRI DISH: THEY ARE GROWING HUMAN BRAIN CELLS TO RUN COMPUTERS
Human brain cells running computers? The first reports were easy to dismiss because fake news is everywhere. AI-generated stories and images look real and get used to stoke fear with lies. The research now leaves no room for doubt: they are growing living human brain cells and wiring them into computers.
A company in Melbourne takes a few drops of donated human blood, or a scrap of skin. These starting cells are not taken from an aborted baby. In the lab the cells are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells, the kind that can become almost any tissue. Those stem cells are then steered into becoming neurons, living cells that fire the way brain cells fire. About 800,000 of those neurons are grown on a small silicon plate covered with tiny metal contacts in each unit. A computer signals the living tissue with electricity. The tissue answers with electricity. Software treats that exchange as computation. If the cells do what the operators want, they receive a smooth electrical pattern (They call it a reward). If they miss, they receive noise (They call it punishment). Over hours and days the living culture changes its firing and gets better at the task. That is how it works and it is no longer only a theory.
Australia-based Cortical Labs recently debuted the world’s first biocomputer, priced at $35,000 per unit.
From Pong to Biological Data Centers: The Rapid Progression of Living Neurons
In October 2022 the journal Neuron published the first famous proof. The Melbourne team, working with what they called DishBrain, showed that about 800,000 lab-grown neurons, some human and some from mice, could learn a simple paddle game called Pong when wired to a simulated game world. [1]
The company behind that work is Cortical Labs, founded in Melbourne in 2019. In 2023 TechCrunch reported that the firm had raised money to push the same living cells toward artificial intelligence. [2]
In March 2025 they put a commercial box on the market called the CL1.
Each unit is a small aquarium for brain cells with a computer plugged in. Price: $35,000.
IEEE Spectrum described it as a shoebox-sized biological computer: living human neurons on a chip, kept alive with pumps, food, temperature control, and waste removal for up to about six months. [3]
Each CL1 is one self-contained device. Think of it as a small aquarium for brain cells with a computer plugged into it.
In August 2026 Singapore showed a working prototype cabinet at the National University of Singapore, first about twenty of the boxes, described in the press as millions of living human neurons processing information instead of ordinary computer chips. [9] [10]
The company calls it synthetic biological intelligence. The street name is wetware.
Melbourne is where the commercial product was born, but the same idea is already alive in other countries.
In Vevey, Switzerland, a company called FinalSparkgrows tiny clusters of human brain cells, called organoids, and lets researchers around the world rent time on them through the internet. ScienceAlert described an array of sixteen of those mini-brains wired to electrodes. [11]Nature later surveyed the whole field of computers that run on human brain cells.[12]
In August 2026, a U.S. startup called Parasma said human brain cells could predict the next word in a sentence in controlled tests. That is the same basic job a language model does. A language model is software that runs on computer chips. Tools like ChatGPT and Grok work this way. They learn from text and guess what word should come next. The company’s founder had earlier worked with Cortical Labs on a demo that trained brain cells to play Doom. [13]
THE SPIRITUAL CHARGE: MAN PLAYING GOD
The technical story is only the surface. Underneath it is a rebellion as old as the Garden of Eden with new tools. The apple is the living brain chip.
From Genesis forward, the human being is not raw material. A person is made in the image of God. Humans are not just meat that computes and is manufactured as a product line. This means that there is a line that humans should not cross.
Transhumanism walks up to that line and calls the crossing progress. It says the body is an outdated operating system. It says aging is a bug. It says that the mind is a pattern you can copy, grow, house in a cabinet, and rent. It says if nature gave us neurons, we are allowed to farm them, wire them, punish them with noise, reward them with pretty signals, and sell the result as a greener computer.
That is not humility. That is priesthood without God. The lab coat becomes the vestment. The incubator becomes the altar. The donor’s blood becomes the offering. And the public is told to be grateful because the new idol uses less electricity than a graphics card.
The Bible’s warning about this spirit of idolatry and pride. The builders of Babel said, “Let us make a name for ourselves.” The serpent’s first sales pitch was, “You will be like God and know good and evil.” Every age finds a new brick. Ours is a living chip.
The Bible teaches that some powers are not ours to take even if we can take them. Ability to do something is not permission. “We can grow brain cells in a dish” does not answer whether living human brain tissue should be treated as a server. That matter is spiritual before it is technical.
If those neurons are only cells, we have still treated the human form as spare parts for industry. Either way the posture is the same. Man appoints himself creator of life.
You do not have to guess at the religion behind this. The most famous popular historian of the tech age has been saying it in print for a decade. Yuval Noah Harari titled a book Homo Deus, Latin for “Man God.” He was not being cute. [17]
“I titled the book Homo Deus because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities, in particular the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.”
“In the twenty-first century, the third big project of humankind will be to acquire for us divine powers of creation and destruction, and upgrade Homo sapiens into Homo deus. So we may well think of the new human agenda as consisting really of only one project (with many branches): attaining divinity.”
At the World Economic Forum at Davos, Harari said:
“When biotechnology, nanotechnology and the other fruits of science ripen, Homo sapiens will attain divine powers and come full circle back to the biblical Tree of Knowledge. Scientists will upgrade us into gods.”
“In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to reengineer life, and even to create completely new life-forms. After four billion years of organic life shaped by natural selection, we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design. Our intelligent design is going to be the new driving force of the evolution of life and in using our new divine powers of creation we might make mistakes on a cosmic scale.”
[18] In 2023 he told India Today, “Homo sapiens are in the process of becoming gods.” [19]
Read those sentences slowly. This is not a preacher putting words in a scientist’s mouth. This is the house intellectual of Davos describing the project in the project’s own language.
Create life. Upgrade the species. Take the apple. Become gods.
Harari also admits the trade. He has written that modernity is a deal: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power. That is the spiritual price tag. You get the dish that plays Doom. You lose the idea that a human life is holy.
Transhumanism does not need to kick down church doors. It only needs people to accept that a person is a pattern, that a neuron is a part, and that the highest good is more computation at lower wattage. Once that creed is normal, growing brain tissue in a cabinet stops looking like sacrilege and starts looking like infrastructure.
A Warning Already Being Preached
Podcaster Ashley Hays makes some good points:
“They built an entity that is utilizing human cells to power and advance the AI layer. Future data centers will now be built utilizing these what they call CL1 biological computing chips being run by human cells. And this is what they call wetware.”
“The beast system will be run by the human nervous system because that’s the goal. Transhumanism. Satan wants to corrupt God’s creation, but also in the process utilize the human nervous system because anything that he creates cannot compare.”
“The end goal is a counterfeit creation. Human beings are the wetware that keep it running.”
That last sentence is the spiritual core. Scripture does not need a computer science degree to recognize the pattern. Genesis 6 and the words of Jesus in Matthew 24 say the last days would look like the days of Noah: not only violence, but a defiling of kinds, a mixing of what God separated.
You do not have to accept every end-times timeline to hear the moral alarm. If the beast system in Revelation 13 is a world order that brands people so they can buy and sell, then the machinery that matters is not only a tattoo or a chip. It is a culture that already treats the human nervous system as infrastructure. First the dish. Then the implant. Then the claim that you cannot live, heal, work, or pay without joining the hybrid.
Ashley’s video description says it clearly: “The system/infrastructure that would support humans being merged with a mark in order to buy or sell is being set up as we speak. Know Jesus NOW.” [20]
The lab paper and the warning are talking about the same bricks. One side calls the bricks synthetic biological intelligence. The other side calls them a counterfeit of the image of God.
Every project of this kind uses the same lullaby to lull us to sleep. It is only a prototype. It is only research. It is only a few hundred thousand cells, and a real brain has 86 billion. Come back when it is serious.
That is how every irreversible thing begins. In vitro fertilization was sold as only for barren couples before it became an industry that freezes, sorts, and discards human embryos by the million and now is selling the human embryos for research. Gene editing was supposed to be therapy for terrible disease before it became about designer children. The internet was a library before it became a surveillance and propaganda machine. The early stage is the stage where the moral question has been ignored.
