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monkey-in-mirror Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 3, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals” Wesley J. Smith November 3, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 7 Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›
brain organoids Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 23, 2024 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Trinity College Dublin Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction Denyse O’Leary January 23, 2024 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›
brain organoids Type post Date July 22, 2022 CategoriesEthicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , autism, birth, brains, consciousness, dementia, embryos, New Scientist, organoids, sentience, skin cells, Stanford University, UC San Diego Yikes, Lab-Grown Brains Are Getting Closer Science & Culture July 22, 2022 Ethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 4 The excitement is the prospect of better understanding and treatment of dementia, autism, and motor neuron disease (ALS). Read More ›
