3 ms·

Sure, but presumably only the lower functions? So below some threshold that makes us feel less 'icky'.

• hinkley 6y ago
  That line moves all the time. Be careful what you start.
  • carmen_sandiego 6y ago
    The line of what's required to make organs grow seems way lower than the level of consciousness that people are happy factory farming when it comes to animals. I'm not sure that will change much. People find humans extra 'icky', I'll concede. But abstracted in the above terms, I don't find it really worrisome. Politically difficult, sure, but that's a different question.
  • tablespoon 6y ago
    > That line moves all the time. Be careful what you start. Yeah. It's probably easier and more efficient to just raise the clones with intact brains, and just indoctrinate them to believe that dying so their organs can be harvested is their purpose and is noble and right. Then the organs can take care of themselves while they grow, requiring less staff. Any moral qualms the rest of the world may have could be addressed with some lie about how the clones have had done to them to make them subhuman. Seriously considering the idea of cloning people for organs is just inviting a nightmarish crime against humanity.