Enslaved rows of brains in jars not tested for sentient markers i bet either how many brain cells does it take for self knowledge to arise? And if you look into this they may use pain and pleasure signals to "train" the enslaved cells

Is it banks and money? No! Its a waste of money.

They still think the brain works like a computer, lol.

Makes you question who is behind this. Surely the tippy-top must know how unviable this approach. So is it just to waste money to pretend science is progressing - Or is there some ulterior motive behind this approach. Maybe its just maybe development of life support systems. These things have always been developed under the disguise of other technologies like anasthetics and vaccines. They invented problems to have a justification to try out life-support systems both for full body as well as parts. This case reeks of that as well. They say its to make a better computer but probably just looking develop systems to keep stolen organs alive or reverse-engineer organs from other beings.

In case of those dudes at John Hopkins - they seem to be in it for the drugs. So they just looking to invent new diseases for new products.

It uses less electricity than normal computers for ai. I read about the sweden example of these enslaved cells. Thats why they want to grow brains as once you perfect this all you have to do is feed them food, the hard part is starting the growing process and it costs a bit.

This is evil science, they are no bettef than not sees testing cold tolerance on bodies or decompression on bodies.

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

It uses less electricity than normal computers for ai. I read about the sweden example of these enslaved cells. Thats why they want to grow brains as once you perfect this all you have to do is feed them food, the hard part is starting the growing process and it costs a bit.

This is evil science, they are no bettef than not sees testing cold tolerance on bodies or decompression on bodies.

That can't be right. Heating is expensive. High end computers use more electricity for cooling rather than heating. I doubt they accurately assessed what it takes to maintain the biocompt vs. normal computer. Did they compare it with modern PC running common software? Those waste ENORMOUS amount of resources on useless crap which could be done away with with custom built OS for specific tasks.

Ill look for the swedish example

ww2 or as the Swiss called it, "the gold rush"

Pigeons have about 300,000 neurons, are pigeons concious? Crocodiles and shrews and hamsters have about the same number of neurons as the following organoid. Are crocodiles concious? When does conciousness arise?

"These organoids measure about 500 µm and contain less than 100,000 cells,....

Brains are not only better at processing data than existing computers, they are also more energy efficient. For example, the training of AlphaGo required 4x10¹⁰ joules of energy, which is more than is needed to sustain an active adult human for a decade"

Source https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/article-hubs/organoid-intelligence-a-new-biocomputing-frontier/explainer

Source2 https://dinoanimals.com/animals/number-of-neurons-in-the-brain-of-animals/

Just pushing the arrival of the basilisk forward.