I think about this but like, I’m not sure if it’s a stupid question so I’ll put it here.

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    13 hours ago

    They do have those computers that use brain cells, I believe it’s called ‘wetware’. They’re trying to see if it’ll be a cheaper alternative to AI. I just feel bad for the brains.

    • I don’t know if I should feel any more than an insect or other animal. The brain matter isn’t like taking an actual animal’s brain and making it a computer; they’re growing synapses in a lab so even if they were conscious, I feel like it wouldn’t be much different to them as anything else that has always been that thing. Like they wouldn’t have any more of an existential crisis being a computer than we do about living in our own bodies.

      Now if they grew sapience that might be something to empathize with.