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    ‘I honestly am not sure on this at all’: Poll reveals public uncertainty over experimenting on conscious lab-grown ‘minibrains’


    ‘I honestly am not sure on this at all’: Poll reveals public uncertainty over experimenting on conscious lab-grown ‘minibrains’

    https://www.livescience.com/health/i-honestly-am-not-sure-on-this-at-all-poll-reveals-public-uncertainty-over-experimenting-on-conscious-lab-grown-minibrains

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    1. FinnFarrow on

      I’d like to say it should be obvious that we should not create conscious life and then experiment on it without consent.

      But then again. I do know humans. . . .

      So really the question is: how do we make conscious mini brains *cute* AF so that people *realize* they really shouldn’t be torturing them.

    3. korphd on

      The first mistake was calling them ‘Mini-brains’ as if they’re more consciousness than plants( not even close)

    4. UXyes on

      This headline is cracking me up. “We asked people are really weird hypothetical and most of them said, ‘uh… I don’t know.’”

      As far the actually morality of it, I think that will be debated forever and has a lot to do with how “noble” any perceived outcome of the experiments would be.