alt Hacker News> We’ve combined lab-grown neurons with silicon chips and made it available to anyone, for first time ever.
There is a line somewhere here that I personally feel we should not cross.
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ZunarJ5 • yesterday at 4:23 PM
To be a fly on the wall in that ethics committee meeting...
doug_durham • yesterday at 5:03 PM
I’m confused by this statement. A neuron is a machine. A silicon chip computer is a machine. All they have done is interfaced two machines.
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We know that neurons can produce subjective experience.
This is the first time in my life that I've felt a scientific avenue of research should shut down.