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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

🧠 People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains

「 The existence of this lab-grown brain and other similar organoids have gotten some scientists speculating that these little walnuts may become conscious in the future — essentially a soupçon of human sentience in a petri dish — which, of course, carries immense ethical implications and icks a lot of people out 」

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/lab-grown-human-brain-poll

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People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains

Brain organoids, miniature human brains grown in a lab, can be used by scientists for experiments but some people are horrified by the idea.
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@jbz
We might all just be Boltzmann brains. Of course, I'm not sure that the rest of you exist.

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