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Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body (www.utsouthwestern.edu)
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[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Richard Nixon's head approves.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

ARRRROOOOOOOO!!!

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No way this ends poorly.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

🧠: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One step closer to Futurama! Wake me up when the suicide booths are ready

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did it maintain the same consciousness?

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hard to ask to the pig they used for the experiment 😅 I suspect we are talking of highly sedated brains anyway

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Talk about nightmare fuel...

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

don't worry. youll be hooked up to neurolink so that we can hear your screems.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Oh its not so bad at least in this simulation we have lemmy

[–] Coldus12@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweeeeet!

Manmade horrors beyond my comprehension!

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Somewhat off topic, but that sounds like the average day for a lot of historians.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

So you have a brain completely disconnected from the world? Reminds me of a Metallica song

[–] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

My idea that instead of retirement I would just have my head mounted to a robot body so I could continue working comes closer to fruition.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Oh no....

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess that’s the end of organ donations, then.

[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

No, it simply means the creation of an organ donor class. The poor will be harvested as cattle for the affluent.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dr. Hfuhruhurr, is that you?