That is very cool, thanks for sharing it. Watching through the video though, there don’t seem to be any claims made or evidence presented that suggest these cells possess a mechanism, understood or otherwise, to know, understand or experience anything. Nothing to suggest they are capable of consciousness.
How can cells know what it’s like to be a cell? What capacity do they have to perceive information, what organs do they have to store memories and examine them?
Child sexual abuse materials. Vile shit
There are plenty of virtues that are generally seen as good outside of religious sentiment associated with suffering for a cause. Tenacity is usually an appealing quality.
Souls existing would put a very large hole in my materialist worldview, and I don’t want to have been fundamentally wrong for my entire life, especially on something that so greatly impacts my decision making and general outlook.
Not the person you were replying to, but thanks for the tip. Is this code collated together somewhere?
All food is just a bunch of chemicals bunched into one.
I know what you mean though, and while, as far as I know, some manufactured meat is actually just grown in a lab, there’s a lot of stuff needed to keep cell cultures alive outside of a body that I wouldn’t really want to eat or have around my food, so it’ll be something to watch out for when it’s widely available.
Still morally and environmentally better though, in most cases.
Can’t shake it either, it’s so deeply ingrained.
We did call those things AI back when they were being developed. It’s just that advancements in AI that become immediately useful tend to get a different name.