there is a special place in hell for these scientists

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39484942

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Cortical Labs are the ones who pulled this off. They already have biological computers running on 800,000 lab-grown neurons available for ~$35,000 (just going on what a quick Google search told me) and are planning to open up a cloud computing service with its own API soon.
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“Do lab grown neurons have a soul?”
I would say consciousness is required for that, so no.

People used to say animals were not concious.

Recent science suggest that some animals have what humans would consider to be language. This is a slippery slipe.

People used to say animals were not concious.

A lot of religious people still say that.