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> If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber It does mean exactly that, person or pig. This is the true stuff of nightmares.
The terrifying implications of this tech makes me shudder. Science fiction has beaten me to considering the potential for abuse. I'm picturing Hyperion meets Brainship with some Altered Carbon thrown in. It hurts my brain even to contemplate.
> If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber It does mean exactly that, person or pig. This is the true stuff of nightmares.
You realize that there are governments out there that probably wouldn’t think twice about trying this on a human
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It's because this could be some sort of bizarre unending Harlan Ellisonesque torture. Torturing animals is has been considered immoral for many, many, many years.
And yet is done everyday for food production.
And what do we suppose they are experiencing? It may well be absolutely terrifying. Beyond the normal torture of factory farming.
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It's because this could be some sort of bizarre unending Harlan Ellisonesque torture. Torturing animals is has been considered immoral for many, many, many years.
And yet is done everyday for food production.
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And yet is done everyday for food production.
Hey, can I keep your mind alive and disconnect it from your body, and just, you know, try stuff out, while you endure some kind of surreal waking nightmare, forever looking out from a terrarium with lidless eyes?
This is too much. Uncrossable lines must be drawn immediately. Humanity cannot afford to "wing it" when it comes to ethics and morality at this scale. There needs to be clear lines where crossing means the highest criminal consequence to the researcher. And people funding it. And it needs to be a global effort. Everything needs a balance.
There are obviously major issues to work out still, but I don't see how else this research can advance but with animal experiments.
The terrifying implications of this tech makes me shudder. Science fiction has beaten me to considering the potential for abuse. I'm picturing Hyperion meets Brainship with some Altered Carbon thrown in. It hurts my brain even to contemplate.