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Are we sure that's not just a weirdly angled picture of a chihuahua or muffin?
This is what you get with some further coaxing.
this guy coaxes
It has no mouth and it must scream
it can eat and grow though
I have no mouth but I must scream.
Eldritch horrors beyond my comprehension
Simply put, to respond to light stimuli is not an unequivocal sign of consciousness.
This could be exactly the scientific breakthrough we needed. Imagine a future where we all have one of these and it watches ads on your behalf. It can't close its eyes. It can't look away. it's the perfect audience!
Its onky useful if it can interface and upvote/like things as well.
In face, just wire the eyes to the muscle for the like action.
This could mean the end of the great advertising war! The corporations want to stick their endless adverts in front of our eyeballs, we want to live without that crap. This gives us the possibility of a truce. They let us have internet and TV and operating systems and fridges with no adverts. In return, each of us sponsors one eyeball-equipped consciousness eternally trapped in the Torment Nexus. It's a reasonable compromise!
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
I too look forward to horrors beyond human comprehensions!
A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.
It's an honest job.
Tech venture capitalists for some reason:
Imagine reincarnating into that
Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.
Everybody wants science to cure cancer, but the moment someone does foundational research they lose their fuckin minds.
Guys, the alternative is cutting up mice and pigs.
Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
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I have no mouth and I must scream.
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
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The next thing they form is a rudimentary finger for doom scrolling.
I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
This is how I feel on Sundays.
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Horrific state of consciousness? They're probably having the best time of any of us
if bright then pulse high
A riveting existence!
Light definitely elevates my mood
It's just like me fr fr
More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
Hey now, don't be rude. There are still some really good groundskeepers working there.
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Unless you go for Cartesian dualist theories about immaterial souls, consciousness of the sort we experience is an artefact of the structure of our brains and nervous systems, which are large in scale and complex. A small blob of human-derived brain tissue is not going to have consciousness, let alone self-awareness and a sense of horror at its predicament, any more than a 555 timer is capable of playing DOOM by virtue of being made of silicon.
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The comments here show something that the majority of people have no clue how science and research works. We would have been decades closer to even greater research with stem cells if it wasn’t for religious non-sense.
perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don't know it.
does this mean that when they close their eyes the darkness they see is really the inside of their skull?
Of course. And the voice inside their heads is another mouth that developed and wants to be friends.
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Hurry up, make ads for that thing.
Oh to be a blob with not a care in the world.
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