We’ll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.
Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 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.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I had no idea that he wrote any horror… but that’s a pretty cool story
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It’s a few cerebral cells across a mesh-- I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I think achieving consciousness needs a bit more than that
Good thing nobody knows for sure!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 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 11 months ago
The soul exists. Trust.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
nobody knows for sure!
But I intend to find out!
ReBoot!!!
HubertManne@piefed.social 11 months ago
that takes me back.
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why? Being dead is not cool.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
How do you know?
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Common sense: Only something can be cool. Nothing – can’t.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Everyone dies. It must be cool if everyone does it.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 11 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.