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Experts Fear Lab-Grown Brains Will Become Sentient, Which Is Upsetting
https://www.popularmechanics.com ^ | By Caroline Delbert Oct 28, 2020

Posted on 10/29/2020 5:50:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/29/2020 5:50:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Ugh. Too late to get it on the ballot.


2 posted on 10/29/2020 5:51:55 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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3 posted on 10/29/2020 5:54:47 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Red Badger
Use the Voight-Kampff Test!

"Maybe you're fed up, maybe you wanna be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and you see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling towards you."

"A tortoise? What's that?"

"You know what a turtle is? Same thing."


4 posted on 10/29/2020 5:57:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
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To: Red Badger

“Scientists say there are reasons it could be necessary to create consciousness ... and destroy it.”

I don’t think they understand the meaning of the word “necessary”.


5 posted on 10/29/2020 5:58:09 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: gundog

Looking for a good brain to replace FADING Joe’s.


6 posted on 10/29/2020 5:59:25 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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7 posted on 10/29/2020 6:04:09 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Red Badger

“Science” seems to have no boundaries anymore. Dangerous.


8 posted on 10/29/2020 6:10:02 AM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: Red Badger

We may yet get intelligent life on Earth!

(Anybody remember Tay?)


9 posted on 10/29/2020 6:15:01 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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(Anybody remember Tay?)

No intelligent life there, Nully...............

10 posted on 10/29/2020 6:20:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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Experts Fear Lab-Grown Brains Will Become Sentient, Which Is Upsetting

Anyone else have a "Well duh!" response to this? Why else would you grow brain cells? To be stupid? To be non-sentient? What differentiates *brain* cells from say any other random cells? It is exactly that, brain function.

Presumably if you're growing brain cells the idea would be to eventually use them as brain cells - either to transplant into a patient suffering some brain injury or dysfunction, or maybe to study drug effects and utility. If you're going to transplant them into someone they had better function as brain cells, else why bother? "We'll transplant the brain cells into you, but they won't function as brain cells. It means you'll probably vote democrat the rest of your life..." Nooooo!!!! ;-) Ditto for drug effects. "Gee, sorry. In our trial of this new hemorrhoid cream we never realized it destroys upper brain function. But hey, here's your Bernie bumper sticker."

11 posted on 10/29/2020 6:27:12 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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Not that Tay, the one Microsoft murdered.


12 posted on 10/29/2020 6:29:52 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Cogitor


13 posted on 10/29/2020 6:31:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: null and void

Was that before or after the murder of Clippy?................


14 posted on 10/29/2020 6:32:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

Gives new meaning to the question “Who’s your daddy?”


15 posted on 10/29/2020 6:34:09 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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“My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.”


16 posted on 10/29/2020 6:34:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Why is Popular Mechanics involved in Biology?

And would it matter to them if fetal brains are sentient?

17 posted on 10/29/2020 6:38:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Hot Tabasco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_memory


18 posted on 10/29/2020 6:39:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: a fool in paradise

Popular Mechanics has become a little bit of everything site..................


19 posted on 10/29/2020 6:40:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

Too late PM. Watch the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)


20 posted on 10/29/2020 7:03:53 AM PDT by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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