Are we sure that's not just a weirdly angled picture of a chihuahua or muffin?
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This is what you get with some further coaxing.
this guy coaxes
It has no mouth and it must scream
it can eat and grow though
I have no mouth but I must scream.
Eldritch horrors beyond my comprehension
Simply put, to respond to light stimuli is not an unequivocal sign of consciousness.
This could be exactly the scientific breakthrough we needed. Imagine a future where we all have one of these and it watches ads on your behalf. It can't close its eyes. It can't look away. it's the perfect audience!
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Tech venture capitalists for some reason:
A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.
It's an honest job.
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
I too look forward to horrors beyond human comprehensions!
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.
Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
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I have no mouth and I must scream.
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
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I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
This is how I feel on Sundays.
Me most mornings.
Imagine reincarnating into that
Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.
The next thing they form is a rudimentary finger for doom scrolling.
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.
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More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
Hey now, don't be rude. There are still some really good groundskeepers working there.
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Horrific state of consciousness? They're probably having the best time of any of us
if bright then pulse high
A riveting existence!
Light definitely elevates my mood
It's just like me fr fr
perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don't know it.
does this mean that when they close their eyes the darkness they see is really the inside of their skull?
Of course. And the voice inside their heads is another mouth that developed and wants to be friends.
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Hurry up, make ads for that thing.
The comments here show something that the majority of people have no clue how science and research works. We would have been decades closer to even greater research with stem cells if it wasn’t for religious non-sense.
Oh to be a blob with not a care in the world.
ah great, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
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