A response to claims of emergent intelligence and sentience in a dish

Fuat Balci, Suliann Ben Hamed, Thomas Boraud, Sébastien Bouret, Thomas Brochier, Cédric Brun, Jeremiah Y. Cohen, Etienne Coutureau, Marc Deffains, Valérie Doyère, Georgia G. Gregoriou, J. Alexander Heimel, Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik, Daeyeol Lee, Eric C. Leuthardt, Zachary F. Mainen, Mackenzie Mathis, Ilya E. Monosov, Jérémie Naudé, Amy L. Orsborn, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Emmanuel Procyk, Bernardo Sabatini, Jérôme Sallet, Carmen Sandi, Jeffrey D. Schall, Alireza Soltani, Karel Svoboda, Charles R.E. Wilson, Jan Zimmermann
Neuron. 2023-03-01; 111(5): 604-605
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.009

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Balci F(1), Ben Hamed S(2), Boraud T(3), Bouret S(4), Brochier T(5), Brun C(6), Cohen JY(7), Coutureau E(8), Deffains M(9), Doyère V(10), Gregoriou GG(11), Heimel JA(12), Kilavik BE(5), Lee D(13), Leuthardt EC(14), Mainen ZF(15), Mathis M(16), Monosov IE(17), Naudé J(18), Orsborn AL(19), Padoa-Schioppa C(20), Procyk E(21), Sabatini B(22), Sallet J(23), Sandi C(16), Schall JD(24), Soltani A(25), Svoboda K(7), Wilson CRE(23), Zimmermann J(26).

Author information:
(1)University of Manitoba, Department of Biological Sciences, 50 Sifton Rd,
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M5, Canada.
(2)Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR5229 CNRS Université de
Lyon, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France.
(3)University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; CHU de
Bordeaux, IMN Clinique, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
(4)Institut du Cerveau (ICM), INSERM UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié-Salpêtrière
Hospital, Paris, France.
(5)Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), UMR 7289, CNRS, Aix-Marseille
Université, Marseille 13005, France.
(6)University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France; University
Bordeaux Montaigne, Philosophy Department, 33607 Pessac, France.
(7)Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
(8)University Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
(9)University Bordeaux, CNRS, IMN, UMR 5293, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
(10)Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay,
UMR9197, 91400 Saclay, France.
(11)University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine and Foundation for Research and
Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Heraklion
70013, Greece.
(12)Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
(13)Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Departments of Psychological and Brain
Sciences and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
(14)Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, MO, USA.
(15)Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
(16)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Brain Mind Institute,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
(17)Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: .
(18)IGF, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
(19)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA.
(20)Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, MO, USA.
(21)University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research
Institute U1208, Bron, France. Electronic address: .
(22)HHMI, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
(23)University Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research
Institute U1208, Bron, France.
(24)Visual Neurophysiology Centre, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
(25)Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth University,
Hanover, NH, USA.
(26)University of Minnesota, Department of Neuroscience, Center for Magnetic
Resonance Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.009
PMID: 36863319

Conflict of interest statement: Declaration of interests The writers and key
corresponding authors of this document, I.E.M. and E.P., do not have any patents
or interests related to our work to declare. The rest of the authors are
“signers” and gave comments to improve the manuscript, therefore they were not
polled on this issue.

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