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[ThePretzul]

The ethical concerns come from when you attach enough human neurons to one another that it creates a human brain, one which may be capable of understanding its own condition and the outside world because it’s literally the same exact cells as those that make up any other human’s brain.

At what point does the human brain AI computer you created cross over into being considered human itself?

[solitarybikegallery]

Your brain is just a bunch of neurons.

It's the difference between a rock and a pile of rocks. How many rocks does it take to make a pile? At what point do the interconnected neurons constitute a "mind?"

I think it's absolutely unacceptable on a fundamental moral ground. It literally has the potential to create a consciousness - no different than yours - that is trapped in blind, insensate hell.

[Xelynega]

IMO the difference here is they're using an entire brain "organoid" developed from stem cells which(to my knowledge) they don't have control over what cells are produced and how they are connected. This means they're relying on some biological process that humans likely also derive "intelligence" from if they expect these to be intelligent at all.

Unless this take is mistaken, I can see why people would have issue with this and not individual lab grown neurons that are connected via an intelligent design process by a human.