Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.
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@ErikUden “Not alive, but not dead” is a quite good epithet for modernity
Reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here?
Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human.
The article writes:
Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]
What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is?
I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves?
Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence
