We also need to caution ourselves at avoiding things because they are scary. At some point, deciding not to move on from a tended field was probably terrifying.

We also need to caution ourselves at avoiding things because they are scary. At some point, deciding not to move on from a tended field was probably terrifying. Obviously it turned out all right for their descendants. Meanwhile, I would argue this is much less scary than moving to a monodiet in terms of genetic variety in what we eat, having a 9-5 job during peak sunlight, surrounding ourselves with artificial light, and having no idea what any of my neighbors' names are. Frankly, I'm not entirely sure I would object to literally growing fetus brains so long as we understood what we were scared of. But not flipping on a neural network because it "might" be conscious, thus ensuring ethical questions, strikes me as.... premature moralizing. We already know this model doesn't describe anything that could actually form into a brain, just see other comments on the vascular structure. It's like saying "hey, we discovered radioactivity, so let's put a moratorium on it so nobody makes a bomb".