" Six months ago another scholar came to visit me [Michaelangelo Antonioni] in Rome, Robert M. Stewart. He had invented a chemical brain and he was going to Naples to a congress on cybernetics to tell them about his invetion, one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the world. It was in a tiny box, mounted on a load of tubes: there were cells, made up of gold and other substances, in a chemical solution. These cells have a life of their own and have certain reactions: if you walk into a room, they take on one shape, whereas if I walk in, they take on another, and so on. In that little box there were a few million cells, but from such basis you can actually reconstruct a human brain. That man feeds them, puts them to sleep--he talked to me about it very clearly. . ."
"Another man Silvio Ceccato, of the Univerrsity of Milan apparently created an electric brain, that could see and describe what it sees, and write an article from any given aesthetic, ethical or political point of view."
