I see the brain as computer hardware and bios, and the “Person” as application software in the cloud that runs on the hardware. Once the connection is cut, you may be able to activate the hardware, but all that is there is the bios.
And it’s not actually alive. I could see a world where we harvest animal brains as the hardware for a new type of computer. Imagine a super computer powered by thousands and thousands of Monkey brains as its CPU.
“Uh oh, got a virus!”
Pig brains would be cheaper, and we get great barbecue too.
Of course, their brains could band together and make us into barbecue.
Imagine a super computer powered by thousands and thousands of Monkey brains as its CPU.
I wouldn’t want to be the tech support.
Yup. Again, that’s how you get zombies...
“Wet Ware”. This research seems to me like a step in that direction.