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

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    6 hours ago

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

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

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    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?

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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.

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    Thought this was literally a video of a loading circle for a while, and figured “Well, I guess the OP technically hit the liminal nail on the head” when I got jumpscared by the blobbrain loading in.

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    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.

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      this has nothing to do with cancer. when will you people realize? Do you not question why Epstein was funneling billions of dollars into various scientific organizations intent on researching neuroscience?

      Or maybe you are already one of the golems.

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        this has nothing to do with cancer.

        Not directly, but this is furthering the state of the art in organelles, a tool that allows scientists to experiment on the exact tissue they are interested in, not just a animal substitute. That’s why it’s foundational research, as opposed to applying those findings to research a intervention for a specific cancer.

        Do you not question why Epstein was funneling billions of dollars into various scientific organizations intent on researching neuroscience?

        I don’t give a fuck if the pedo had delusions about neuroscience creating deaging, mindcontroll or whatever you are implying here.

        Or maybe you are already one of the golems.

        Now your just chucking out antisemitic dog whistles. And by that I mean actually antisemitism, not antizionism, so fuck of!

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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        Do you not question why Epstein was funneling billions of dollars into various scientific organizations intent on researching neuroscience?

        No, please explain.

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      All I want science to cure is billionaires, we’ll take it from there. Concentrations of wealth that enable making brains grow eyes are a bug, not feature. Ever read “Whitey’s on the Moon”?

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      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.

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        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.