This from http://www.avweb.com/, my favorite source of aviation news:

Brain In A Bowl Flies Simulator
Someone once said he could teach a monkey to fly but researchers at the
University of Florida have taken it a quantum leap further. The biomedical
team says it has a dish full of about 25,000 rat neurons that can keep a PC
flight simulator on the straight and level.

I really hope that whoever gave the instruction to the rat neurons, got proof
of citizenship from all 25,000 of them, and ensured that all of those entries
were kept in a proper logbook. Wouldn't want the TSA getting upset over this
one...