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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (www.science.org)
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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Torment Nexus type beat.

there's no physical or biological reason to think a standalone brain is conscious of anything. by the time we're scooping a brain out of a skull the processes that make someone a person are long gone and this isn't much different from hooking electrodes up to muscle tissue.