It’s a few cerebral cells across a mesh-- I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
Good thing nobody knows for sure!
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
nobody knows for sure!
But I intend to find out!
ReBoot!!!
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
that takes me back.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 months 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).
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The soul exists. Trust.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 months 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.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Why? Being dead is not cool.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
How do you know?
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Common sense: Only something can be cool. Nothing – can’t.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Everyone dies. It must be cool if everyone does it.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We’ll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/William_and_Mary_(short_story)
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I had no idea that he wrote any horror… but that’s a pretty cool story
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A lot of his stuff is very dark
This for instance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter