Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AJ1@lemmy.ca ⁨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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• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/…/William_and_Mary_(short_story)

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    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I had no idea that he wrote any horror… but that’s a pretty cool story

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      • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A lot of his stuff is very dark

        This for instance

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that

    Good thing nobody knows for sure!

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨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 every form of life in Earth would have to be assumed to be conscious.

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

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The soul exists. Trust.

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      nobody knows for sure!

      But I intend to find out!

      ReBoot!!!

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that takes me back.

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• Lembot_0001@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? Being dead is not cool.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you know?

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    • Lembot_0001@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Common sense: Only something can be cool. Nothing – can’t.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Everyone dies. It must be cool if everyone does it.

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      • dedales@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        logicallyfallacious.com/…/Appeal-to-Common-Sense

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