This could be exactly the scientific breakthrough we needed. Imagine a future where we all have one of these and it watches ads on your behalf. It can’t close its eyes. It can’t look away. it’s the perfect audience!
Imagine reincarnating into that
Too much blobs with eyes in the world
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.
Tech venture capitalists for some reason:
Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.
Horrific state of consciousness? They’re probably having the best time of any of us
if bright then pulse highA riveting existence!
Light definitely elevates my mood
It’s just like me fr fr
Oh to be a blob with not a care in the world.
The next thing they form is a rudimentary finger for doom scrolling.
perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don’t know it.
does this mean that when they close their eyes the darkness they see is really the inside of their skull?
Of course. And the voice inside their heads is another mouth that developed and wants to be friends.
perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don’t know it.
Your eyes technically are part of your brain.
But it’s certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.
What’s up with your link?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye
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It’s just like a lizard/fish thing. No mammals.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
I thought that wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual
Nah, that’s the Torment Nexus. AM is free game.
I’m sure they can work out a mouth next
Why?
So it can scream
Needs vocal cords and lungs for that.
Alright well then name your short story ‘I have no vocal cords or lungs and I must scream’
Science isn’t about WHY. It’s about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won’t hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.
The comments here show something that the majority of people have no clue how science and research works. We would have been decades closer to even greater research with stem cells if it wasn’t for religious non-sense.
Hurry up, make ads for that thing.
Everybody wants science to cure cancer, but the moment someone does foundational research they lose their fuckin minds.
Guys, the alternative is cutting up mice and pigs.Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
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All I want science to cure is billionaires, we’ll take it from there. Concentrations of wealth that enable making brains grow eyes are a bug, not feature. Ever read “Whitey’s on the Moon”?
Iam not sspecifically talking about this example and I am not trying to imply this tissue has any sort of consciousness but if “foundational research” means “man made horrors beyond my comprehension” maybe we need to find another way, and if we cannot, maybe we just shouldn’t torture conscious beings in the name of science and progress.
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Nature is full of horrors beyond your comprehension. If you want to make that less so, manmade horrors are the only way to do it.
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This is by no means torture, quite the opposite in fact. Neurons are little prediction machines, and if you don’t give them stimuli, they either make their own of degrade. Particularly in small clumps of cells like this, you can’t be sure of whether they’re conscious, but if they are, they’re having an amazing time learning about the light signals.
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That touches upon the actual issue here. We dont know if they’re conscious. We don’t have a solid idea of what consciousness is, where it comes from, what it consists of, or where the line is drawn. That’s the sort of knowledge you only get by performing these sorts of experiments.
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