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I don't see this being any more unethical or unnerving than keeping a liver a or a lung or a heart alive outside of a body. A brain is just another organ, it's
by nukeop 8y ago
I don't see this being any more unethical or unnerving than keeping a liver a or a lung or a heart alive outside of a body. A brain is just another organ, it's not a mind. It is a vital organ, to be sure, but the article equates it with the "essence" of a living being. This involves too many assumptions.
- creep 8y agoThis is true. The "mind" could very well exist outside of any organ system.
- kpil 8y agoNo it can't.
- creep 8y agoProve it?
- Tade0 8y agoThe sheer amount of energy used by this organ is a major hint. Also damage to the brain has immediate and profound effects on one's mental capabilities as opposed to damage to any other organ.
- creep 8y agoThere are theories that the brain is just an interface for the mind-- as in, it exists apart from the brain, but the brain facilitates its expression in physicality. If the brain were damaged, the interface would thus be damaged, and you could no longer access the information provided by mind. There are theories that there is no such thing as mind. You didn't prove anything.
- codingdave 8y agoAssuming it is not a mind and isn't in massive pain is also too many assumptions. If your stance can be proven, fine - but the ethical problem is getting to that proof without creating disembodied minds living a life of absolute torture, with no senses or possible actions or communications... just an endless experience of pain.
- cheez 8y agoI would suspect that being deprived of sensory input, you would become a vegetable after going crazy at some point.