I just went down the rabbit hole reading the "related articles"[0][1] to this one. This stuff is completely amazing and a little bit scary: "Neuroscientists h

I just went down the rabbit hole reading the "related articles"[0][1] to this one. This stuff is completely amazing and a little bit scary: "Neuroscientists have transplanted human glial cells into mice, for instance, and found that the animals perform better in certain tasks involving learning." We already are at a point where we can grow other human organs inside animals (like human hearts inside pigs). What if we could grow a human brain inside an animal? Would it have human rights? What if we could grow a human brain out of braincells that were taken from an existing human brain (ex vivo)? Would it have some memories? This is wild... [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04813-x https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04813-x [1] https://www.nature.com/news/the-boom-in-mini-stomachs-brains-breasts-kidneys-and-more-1.18064 https://www.nature.com/news/the-boom-in-mini-stomachs-brains... edit: formatting