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2019-10-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Scientists worry lab-grown human ‘mini-brains’ may become sentient

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Whereas I'm worried about the fact that a lot of humans do not appear to be sentient.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-23 02:20|| 2019-10-23 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2
"It could be judging us this very moment, sitting there in it's petridish !"

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-23 04:39|| 2019-10-23 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 How could they be conscious or sentient without any form of external stimuli?

Posted by Fat Bob Javish1936 2019-10-23 06:49|| 2019-10-23 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 How could they be conscious or sentient without any form of external stimuli?

Neuroscientists Demonstrate Wireless Neural Communication Possible

Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-23 08:07|| 2019-10-23 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, if they get the transplant techniques down, then Maxine Waters might actually say something sensible.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-10-23 09:46|| 2019-10-23 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 I've seen this movie.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-10-23 09:57|| 2019-10-23 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Damn, more left-wing voters.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-23 10:21|| 2019-10-23 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 How could they be conscious or sentient without any form of external stimuli?

That's why you place them in various strategic positions around the Jaeger, stegosaurus theory if you will, so to share the neural load and allow a single operator, vastly increasing the number of pilots to choose from.

Imagine the poetry, "I am Gipsy Danger's Plasma Cannon."

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-23 11:16|| 2019-10-23 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 See: Donovan's Brain

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-23 13:26|| 2019-10-23 13:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Dalek

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-23 14:04|| 2019-10-23 14:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn, more left-wing voters.
Posted by JohnQC

If that is the case they wouldn't be sentient in the first place.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-23 18:19|| 2019-10-23 18:19|| Front Page Top

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