Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your pilot, Captain Brain speaking...

Probably one of the coolest things I've read about in awhile. Studying brain activity through a flight simulator.
“It’s essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a grid at the bottom,” DeMarse said. “Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network – a brain.”
(Image borrowed from "Creating Flat Maps of the Human Brain".)