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Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat. "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild
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We don’t know what a brain disconnected from all sensory inputs feels. It could be agonizing pain for all that we know.
...they are pigs.
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> Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Are you comfortable with the possibility that those who are reviving you might not be doing it for your benefit?
I think so. Still better than being dead. (If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.)
And the technology is here, it's only a matter of time before this kind of abuse starts happening.
I'm not saying we should not continue researching this, as the possibilities are endless, but let's not put the pitfalls under the rug
Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Please make sure I am supplied with some good books to read, if at all possible.
I don’t see why they bothered drugging the brains. Even if they became conscious, the pig’s bodies are dead and gone. There is nothing to feel, one is simply alone with their thoughts, perhaps even dreams.
We don’t know what a brain disconnected from all sensory inputs feels. It could be agonizing pain for all that we know.
Frankenstein has taught us nothing uh?
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> Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Are you comfortable with the possibility that those who are reviving you might not be doing it for your benefit?
I think so. Still better than being dead. (If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.)
Frankenstein has taught us nothing uh?
Idle thought: Frankenstein with VC money... "Yeah, we're raising our series A so we can ink a deal with a Chinese morgue for a steady supply of parts to stitch together, and to scale up our electricity generation to the needed amount so we don't have to depend on the odd lightning bolt, which turns out to be really rare here in Palo Alto"
Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat. "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild
I can't wrap my head around what it would be like to exist merely as a consciousness within my brain, lacking any sensory organs to perceive the surrounding world. Of course, I've also never been in a sensory deprivation tank.