Ermintruder
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This news item was being extensively-covered by BBC radio news this evening. Interesting, and is either very disturbing, or it's not. I puzzle over why the neurologists being interviewed (in other reports, not the one below) are raising even the slight possibility that these reoxygenated/recirculated brains might possess some form of consciousness.
Surely all conventional neuroscience would say such a phenomenon was impossible? And (relatively-easily) measurable, using sensitive EEG and other brain-scan technologies? Is this a straw-man self shootdown?
This faux moral quandry, then, when they're talking about the need for a 'public conversation' (to use the contemporary BS verbiage) regarding the acceptability or otherwise of doing this- surely the strong implication is that there IS the possibility of detecting consciousness as a result of their efforts?
Implying then, that the elusive-but-engaging 'ghost within the machine', the soul of existential substance is (partly, wholely, somehow) like a electromagnetic field generated by a biomechanical container?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/scientists-keeping-pig-brains-alive-12436934
Scientists keeping pig brains 'alive' inside their SEVERED heads in Frankenstein-style research
They've kept the reanimated brains "alive" for up to 36 hours
Scientists have been able to bring the brains of dead pigs back to life placing the severed heads of the animals inside an abattoir.
While there has been no evidence that the brains regained consciousness, the researchers were able to restore circulation with a system of pumps, heaters and artificial body-temperature blood.
Surely all conventional neuroscience would say such a phenomenon was impossible? And (relatively-easily) measurable, using sensitive EEG and other brain-scan technologies? Is this a straw-man self shootdown?
This faux moral quandry, then, when they're talking about the need for a 'public conversation' (to use the contemporary BS verbiage) regarding the acceptability or otherwise of doing this- surely the strong implication is that there IS the possibility of detecting consciousness as a result of their efforts?
Implying then, that the elusive-but-engaging 'ghost within the machine', the soul of existential substance is (partly, wholely, somehow) like a electromagnetic field generated by a biomechanical container?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/scientists-keeping-pig-brains-alive-12436934
Scientists keeping pig brains 'alive' inside their SEVERED heads in Frankenstein-style research
They've kept the reanimated brains "alive" for up to 36 hours
Scientists have been able to bring the brains of dead pigs back to life placing the severed heads of the animals inside an abattoir.
While there has been no evidence that the brains regained consciousness, the researchers were able to restore circulation with a system of pumps, heaters and artificial body-temperature blood.
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