Ugh. Too late to get it on the ballot.
"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."
“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”.
“Science” seems to have no boundaries anymore. Dangerous.
We may yet get intelligent life on Earth!
(Anybody remember Tay?)
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."
Gives new meaning to the question “Who’s your daddy?”
And would it matter to them if fetal brains are sentient?
Too late PM. Watch the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
they making a lab grown divine spark too???Jan in the Pan, v2.0.