= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Viliam comments on [Link] First almost fully-formed human [foetus] brain grown in lab, researchers claim - Less Wrong Discussion
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
Comments (40)
Don't ever let this guy walk around when someone is in a sensory deprivation tank.
To me the biggest concern was
...
The goal being studying brain in pain implies they will need a brain in pain. Seems like ethics should come into that at some point.
We don't even have the whole-brain simulations, and the artificial hell is already here.
As bad as the argument is, it's a little different when the brain has never ever been outside one.
How is it a bad argument?
We don't know enough about brain operation to conclude that sensory stimuli are necessary for ethically sensitive processes to start.
I wasn't sure if we were metaphorically talking about the foetus brain in question or a hypothetical human that's fully grown in an isolation tank. If we were talking about the former, we seem to have a fundamentally different set of ethics. With your clarification I assume we're talking about the latter, in which case I agree with you.
Saying that an undeveloped foetus brain isn't thinking because it hasn't received sensory stimuli is a different argument than saying that a fully grown brain can't think because it hasn't received sensory stimuli.
Tangentially, are those still used? There was a fad for them (especially combined with LSD) something like 40 years ago, but I've hardly heard of them since.
Sensory deprivation tanks (aka float tanks) are still a thing. Here's a business in Atlanta with float tanks. (I've never tried a float tank, so I can't speak to their efficacy.)