Have you considered that I will be a big piece of shit about it?
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I'm just saying it's several orders of magnitude less brain material than a mouse, and that it would make more sense ethically, in the short term, to stop using mice for experiments. This can't be a notably sentient thing. If this organelle is a tiny human soul, then a mouse is feeling everything it feels times a thousand, like it's in there writing mouse poetry and just can't express it. The mouse would have to be asking some deep philosophical questions. We can ask what is consciousness, and we can not know, but it doesn't make sense to bring this quandary up about a graphing calculator or an ant.
I looked up the number of neurons in a human brain, and it's around 100 billion, so the human brain is 10 million times more complex than one of these human brain organelles. We have records of people with way more than 1 1 millionth of a brain - like a 1000th of a brain - and they don't do anything at all.
I don't think human neurons are particularly morally special, although in higher numbers, I imagine they're probably pretty good at forming consciousness compared to something like 1000 ant brains worth of ant neurons crammed together. Which is why in 20 years they're gonna start asking the researchers to let them die, or some shit.
But it's just so far off at this point, there's no way it's feeling more than a small ant feels, and a lab mouse is just so vastly and incalculably more sapient than this organelle
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I was too excited with the freedom and ended up wasting time playing video games and skipping classes regularly because I had little energy to function as an adult
I got to the point where I slept in through all my alarms so hard that I'd wake up at 7:00 PM, run down to a class building that never properly locked, and bought a slim jim and some chips from the vending machine inside because that was the only food I had access to. I'd run back and play modded Rome: Total War until I fell asleep in the early morning for another 12 hours
Yeah I guess I just mean I doubt at this early stage that it's gonna be more aware than an insect or something.
I just managed to find a quote that the ganglia in this experiment have 10,000 cells each, and are pretty separate from one another. And an ant brain is 250,000 neurons, so even if these 16 brains were folded into one, it would still be around half an ant's brain. If some science experiment out there is torturing one really stupid ant, I don't think that has any interesting ethical implications.
But yeah, this is literally some venture capital research entity, they're obviously gonna look for more and more power until this shit gets real, real dark. There's gonna be whistleblowers and shit in like 10 years.
