artifexFive-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergartener’s Neural Wiring. It’s Time to Talk Ethics.
Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious—and how would we know?
Lembot_0006Fuck ethics, push science. As long as they don’t kill children to get the brains out, ethics-mumblers should keep their mouths shut.
You know “ethics” in scientific pursuit doesn’t mean just one thing, right? ie there’s a wide swath of territory between “let’s breed these fruit flies to study genetics” and “now where did I put my baby decapitator?”, and it’s important to evaluate the ethical ramifications of an action at each step along the way.