The ethical concerns were non-existent, said Anand. “We don’t have any sensory stimuli entering the brain. This brain is not thinking in any way.”
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For now, the team say they are focusing on using the brain for military research, to understand the effect of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
The goal being studying brain in pain implies they will need a brain in pain. Seems like ethics should come into that at some point.
To me the biggest concern was
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The goal being studying brain in pain implies they will need a brain in pain. Seems like ethics should come into that at some point.
We don’t even have the whole-brain simulations, and the artificial hell is already here.