Liminal Space
Submitted 7 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 minutes ago
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours 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.felixwhynot@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
kureta@lemmy.ml 2 hours 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.
mad_djinn@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
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”?
afriscipio@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I have no mouth and I must scream.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’m sure they can work out a mouth next
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 hours ago
Unless you go for Cartesian dualist theories about immaterial souls, consciousness of the sort we experience is an artefact of the structure of our brains and nervous systems, which are large in scale and complex. A small blob of human-derived brain tissue is not going to have consciousness, let alone self-awareness and a sense of horror at its predicament, any more than a 555 timer is capable of playing DOOM by virtue of being made of silicon.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Haha my first thought was “I wonder if it’s possible to build a general purple CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker.”
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 minutes ago
If you follow an integrated information theory derivation, consciousness is emergent from integrating and partitioning information, and with no immaterial soul the possible capability of awareness remains, even if not directly comparable to our own.
Give that brain some morphine as a treat to be on the safe side, most brains find that one relaxing.
pancake@lemmygrad.ml 1 hour ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that someone has hacked a single 555 all the way into playing Doom…
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
lengau@midwest.social 2 hours ago
Hey now, don’t be rude. There are still some really good groundskeepers working there.
testaccount372920@piefed.zip 54 minutes ago
This is sick! The potential for basic research seems amazing to me. I think a system like this could be great for understanding some of the fundamentals of signalling in the brain.
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
This is how I feel on Sundays.
lettruthout@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Me most mornings.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
ah great, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 6 hours ago
Am scientist. Dear science, please stop. Just… Don’t.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This can’t possibly go wrong.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
If we’re lucky, in billions of years this one will decide NOT to create “AI”.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.
morto@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Maybe you overestimate the popularity of the places you frequented? Or maybe people’s memory simply isn’t that good
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I’ve not seen it before. But then… I don’t keep up with either science or memes. So it has to break containment or just be a lucky moment when I’m chuckle-scrolling at the right time and place.
perishthethought@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Obligatory XKCD lucky 10000 link…
PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
I’ve been hungover too, so what
deHaga@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
How are they growing human brain blobs?
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 hours ago
Every time certain segments of society speak it causes small potions of the audience’s brains to drip out of their ears. These bits are scraped up off the floor and, after mixing well with some tapioca, come to plausibly resemble the mental functions of the person last heard speaking.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The MAGA effect.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
In the past few years, it has become possible to encourage stem cells – versatile cells similar to those found in embryos – to grow into spherical masses of brain tissue up to three millimetres wide, known as brain organoids.
ComRed@hexbear.net 4 hours ago
Something something man-made horrors something something beyond my comprehension.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
This is crossing a line. Kind of evil and creepy.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 hours ago
Reading Harlan Ellison and thinking "i could make a mouthless screamer
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
Nah, I want to give it a little mouth; the little squeaking screams are cute
Fuzzy wuzzy little misery squishy
cabillaud@lemmy.world 12 seconds ago
Hurry up, make ads for that thing.