How many brain cells do you string together before the DishBrain gets some semblance of sentience? How many before it becomes conscious? We don’t know, of cour

How many brain cells do you string together before the DishBrain gets some semblance of sentience? How many before it becomes conscious? We don’t know, of course. Perhaps consciousness isn’t possible without a live body. Or perhaps it takes just a few hundred thousand neurons. In the meantime, you run the risk of torturing a potentially conscious entity for…what gain exactly?