Descartes, eat yer brain out

Oct 19, 2009 22:41

This is - I presume - a rat cyborg. A ryborg? Rat brain with robot appendages. A ratbot?

You know, when cultured brain cells from a rat steers a robot around obstacles, you kind of get that creepy feeling that perhaps - just perhaps - your consciousness is put in this shell by some experimenting superbeing - and your miserable attempts at handling the box you're put in is being watched by millions of these superbeings.

And these superbeings then go: "Now THAT makes me think that my consciousness could have been placed in a shell..."

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existentialism, science, transhumanism, rodents

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