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Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music (futurism.com)
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Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.

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[–] 78 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's a few cerebral cells across a mesh-- I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that

    Good thing nobody knows for sure!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Well, we do know for sure it'd take more than this. We don't know what it would take, but this is far beyond the minimum it could take. If that's all it is then almost every form of life on Earth would have to be assumed to be conscious.

    (Sentience is actually the word we are talking about).

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    Don't worry too much, it's not even part of his actual brain. It's a bunch of random brain cells grown from a DNA sample.

    If we could make new conscious lifeforms from this, Blade Runner would be a documentary already.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    according to the article it's a tiny smattering of brain cells grown from stem cells derived from his blood, which he donated before he died specifically for this experiment. it is in no way conscious.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We'll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Henrietta Lacks hasn't managed it yet. Look her up. It's at least as bad as this if not more so.

    "Yet" being the operative word here. There's a disease in dogs that started in some very similar circumstances (although happening in nature rather than from a science accident). One slip-up from an immunocompromised tech with just the right genetic make-up and it begins.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    How do you know?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah there's a word for it.

    I'm trans and I get a lot of fuckers using the "You're a man if you're born that way!" Card on me

    They act like it's so obvious and that I'm big dumb for not "getting it"

    So I am relieved to see this

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