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Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create “spare” bodies, both human and nonhuman.
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Okay I guess I'll be that nerd.
Assuming these copies aren't like actually conscious, what's the ethical objection here?
That they're going to use regular humans which are cheaper and in abundence and lie about the source
Yeah, I was like "oh so they just clone you from your DNA like Dolly but don't grow the brain and keep the body alive and health- oh wait capital will never allow this, it'll be homeless people"
The Island is a 2005 film, in which the rich clone themself in case of emergency, supposedly with brainless bodies kept on life support. In reality the clones of them possess consciousness, they are kept in a society in a bunker where they are told a deadly pathogen has rendered the earth unliveable except for one remote island where if you’re lucky you win lottery to go live there, the pathogen causes mental degradation as new arrivals have no memory and must relearn how to look after themselves. The truth is they have to learn as they are in fact basically an adult baby, having been made in the time immediate to arriving and the island is a euphemism for having all your organs harvested.
CW SA
And forced pregnancy