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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
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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I have no mouth and I must scream.
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
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More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
Unless you go for Cartesian dualist theories about immaterial souls, consciousness of the sort we experience is an artefact of the structure of our brains and nervous systems, which are large in scale and complex. A small blob of human-derived brain tissue is not going to have consciousness, let alone self-awareness and a sense of horror at its predicament, any more than a 555 timer is capable of playing DOOM by virtue of being made of silicon.
Haha my first thought was "I wonder if it's possible to build a general purpose CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker."
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/17/implementing-a-cpu-using-555-timers-and-logic-synthesis/
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If you follow an integrated information theory derivation, consciousness is emergent from integrating and partitioning information, and with no immaterial soul the possible capability of awareness remains, even if not directly comparable to our own.
Give that brain some morphine as a treat to be on the safe side, most brains find that one relaxing.
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I don't think we can say that about consciousness for sure, but I agree with your broader point that it doesn't have self-awareness or a sense of horror at its predicament.
This could actually host a very interesting rudimentary form of consciousness that is theorized by some theories of consciousness, especially idealist models like panpsychism or analytic idealism (though I do admit that analytic idealism would phrase it in terms of having a mental state instead of being conscious).
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Tech venture capitalists for some reason:
Are we sure that's not just a weirdly angled picture of a chihuahua or muffin?
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The next thing they form is a rudimentary finger for doom scrolling.
Am scientist.
Dear science, please stop.
Just...
Don't.
Why? It's better than mice in every way.
A horror movie where you suddenly gain consciousness just to realize you’re a light-sensitive brain blob.
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This can't possibly go wrong.
If we're lucky, in billions of years this one will decide NOT to create "AI".
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I'm really curious, has anyone here not seen this image before? Not playing internet gatekeeper, I'm curious about Lemmy demographics. This image was everywhere like 5-7 years ago.
Maybe you overestimate the popularity of the places you frequented? Or maybe people's memory simply isn't that good
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I've not seen it before. But then.... I don't keep up with either science or memes. So it has to break containment or just be a lucky moment when I'm chuckle-scrolling at the right time and place.
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Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.
Hurry up, make ads for that thing.
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
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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!
Horrific state of consciousness? They're probably having the best time of any of us
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.
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I have no mouth but I must scream.
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.
Eldritch horrors beyond my comprehension
How are they growing human brain blobs?
Every time certain segments of society speak it causes small potions of the audience's brains to drip out of their ears. These bits are scraped up off the floor and, after mixing well with some tapioca, come to plausibly resemble the mental functions of the person last heard speaking.
The MAGA effect.
In the past few years, it has become possible to encourage stem cells – versatile cells similar to those found in embryos – to grow into spherical masses of brain tissue up to three millimetres wide, known as brain organoids.
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Oh to be a blob with not a care in the world.
This is sick! The potential for basic research seems amazing to me. I think a system like this could be great for understanding some of the fundamentals of signalling in the brain.
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