I always knew it would end with this
Wait until you guys find out where hamburgers and chicken wings come from.
mini human brains grown in a lab?
It’s mini human brains grown in a lab all the way down!
Oh good! Technological horrors beyond my comprehension
They’re not mini human brains though. They’re little clusters of cells. The BBC’s headline is deliberately (and irresponsibly) provocative and misleading.
so brains, but smaller
A human brain isn’t just a lump of brain cells, it’s an exquisitely intricate assemblage of brain cells in very precisely organized networks that perform very specific functions. Without the organization, the same number of brain cells are not a brain
We flat out do not understand consciousness. There was a case of a guy living a normal life while missing 90% of his brain. Who knows how many undocumented cases there are or what the limits are? Until we understand whether or not we’re creating consciousness and the nature of it, we shouldn’t be fucking around with anything that could wind up being conscious in any capacity that exists only as a part of a machine.
Chat is this slavery?
I suppose it could be if you consider abortion as murder. but there’s nowhere near enough neurons here to be anything close to conscious.
In the same way you’ve enslaved your liver and lungs, sure.
