• anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    843·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • kureta@lemmy.mlEnglish
      215·
      2 months ago

      Iam not sspecifically talking about this example and I am not trying to imply this tissue has any sort of consciousness but if “foundational research” means “man made horrors beyond my comprehension” maybe we need to find another way, and if we cannot, maybe we just shouldn’t torture conscious beings in the name of science and progress.

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        271·
        2 months ago

        1. Nature is full of horrors beyond your comprehension. If you want to make that less so, manmade horrors are the only way to do it.

        2. This is by no means torture, quite the opposite in fact. Neurons are little prediction machines, and if you don’t give them stimuli, they either make their own of degrade. Particularly in small clumps of cells like this, you can’t be sure of whether they’re conscious, but if they are, they’re having an amazing time learning about the light signals.

        3. That touches upon the actual issue here. We dont know if they’re conscious. We don’t have a solid idea of what consciousness is, where it comes from, what it consists of, or where the line is drawn. That’s the sort of knowledge you only get by performing these sorts of experiments.

    • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      Hey now, don’t be rude. There are still some really good groundskeepers working there.

  • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.

  • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.

  • dipcart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Horrific state of consciousness? They’re probably having the best time of any of us

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I’m really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I’m curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.

    • public_image_ltd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Actually no. My account is 2 years 7 months and before I have been on reddit for ages. But I cannot remember ever having seen this.

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      If we’re lucky, in billions of years this one will decide NOT to create “AI”.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It’s pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn’t just nothing happening.

      The eyes don’t just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    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?

  • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    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!

    • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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!