Boy, I stumbled upon an article from LifeSite News that I can’t quite wrap my brain around right now. Nonetheless, I’ll do my best to tell you what I found.
Holy cow, take about a real Frankenstein. Are the mad scientists at FinalSpark taking Mary Shelley’s fictional Doctor Frankenstein’s works to heart? Or to the brain, I should say?
And it’s not just FinalSpark talking and writing about this brain organoid weird science.
A new Perspective discussing key ethical considerations in human brain organoid research and introducing an ethical framework of mindful innovation! @BrighamResearch @HMSBioethics @NathanShlobin @juliansavulescu @ethicsinthenews @NUS_CBmE https://t.co/e03MinqfUw
— Nature Reviews Bioengineering (@natrevbioeng) July 12, 2024
“Mindful innovation,” my ass.
We then propose to view brain organoid research through a new lens of ‘mindful innovation’, that is, societally responsible and responsive innovation with respect to the scientific landscape and social, political and economic conditions. We introduce five core principles of this framework: exploration, contemplation, involvement, adaptation and demarcation, and we illustrate how a framework of mindful innovation may handle ethical challenges and chart an ethical pathway for brain organoid research. – Nature.com
No, it just sounds like you are trying to use gentle words to gaslight the public into believing your insane appetite for fantasy sci-fi carnage.
And here is Elon telling us to be prepared.
But here is more from the original LifeSite News article I shared in this blog post regarding FinalSpark. It is a long article but well worth your time. I’ll throw in some quotes from the article below.
LifeSite News Article Quotes
Well, here we are in 2024 and I have some news for you: there’s nary a flying car in sight, and hunger, disease, and war are still depressingly pervasive.
But there is one area of research where the eggheads haven’t let us down: the development of frightening new technologies of enslavement!
Case in point: a Swiss tech startup has just announced the first “bioprocessor” constructed from 16 “human brain organoids.”
Without even knowing what any of that means, you can already tell this is bad. But you don’t know the half of it yet.
Switzerland. It figures. And what exactly is a human brain organoid you ask? Well, Google AI tells me that brain organoids, also known as neural or cerebral organoids, are three-dimensional tissue cultures that mimic the development and function of the human brain in a laboratory dish. They are created by culturing human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into a structure that can be maintained for years. Brain organoids contain different cell types, including neurons and glia, similar to those found in the human brain.
The LifeSite News article brought to my attention that the mainstream media is trying to tell us that AI is using a lot of power. What? Hint, hint – climate change enthusiasts and a new start-up of alternative ways to power AI – hence, the human brain organoids.
Well, guess what? That “solution” is here, and it involves a computer made of living human brain tissue!
That’s right! A Swiss startup called FinalSpark just launched the first online platform providing researchers access to a “living computer” made from brain “organoids” – that is, artificially grown, in vitro human brain tissue. – LifeSite News
I don’t know about you, but I am grossed out, horrified, and not surprised.
But here’s where it gets creepy: when the FinalSpark brainiacs talk about using living human tissue to create this “bioprocessor,” that isn’t a figure of speech. The “brain organoids” used in this “living computer“ – developed, as their research paper tells us, “from Human iPSC-derived Neural Stem Cells” – are, in fact, alive.
Not only that, but these demented scientists also train the live brain organoids by performing experiments on them and forcing them to learn with a reward and punishment system.
Yes, you read that correctly. Stripped of all the niceties and polite circumlocutions, these researchers are alternately doping and torturing this brain tissue to force it to process information for them. If we consider for a moment that these lab-grown human brain organoids are in fact living creatures, then this entire system should be sending shivers down your spine.
Tortured enslaved mini-brains indeed.
Oh, relax, the scientists and journalists will say if confronted. It’s not like these are brains taken from actual people and hooked up to some mad scientist’s laboratory. Come on, man.
This research is nothing new. The LifeSite news article goes on to discuss something called wetware computing, and I lost interest in the article at that point. But you can read the whole article at LifeSite News, and I recommend that you do.
Now, I am going to have to rotate the movie Young Frankenstein between The Gents and my weekend movie-watching rendezvous.
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