{"id":126978,"date":"2021-08-31T01:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/experts-fear-lab-grown-brains-will-become-sentient-which-is-upsetting"},"modified":"2021-08-31T01:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:23:01","slug":"experts-fear-lab-grown-brains-will-become-sentient-which-is-upsetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/experts-fear-lab-grown-brains-will-become-sentient-which-is-upsetting","title":{"rendered":"Experts Fear Lab-Grown Brains Will Become Sentient, Which Is Upsetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-fear-lab-grown-brains-will-become-sentient-which-is-upsetting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A thought-provoking new article poses some hugely important scientific questions: Could brain cells initiated and grown in a lab become sentient? What would that look like, and how could scientists test for it? And would a sentient, lab-grown brain \u201corganoid\u201d have some kind of rights? Buckle up for a quick and dirty history of the ethics of sentience. We associate the term with computing and artificial intelligence, but the question of who (or what) is or isn\u2019t \u201csentient\u201d and deserving of rights and moral consideration goes back to the very beginning of the human experience. The debate colors everything from ethical consumption of meat to many episodes of Black Mirror.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Well, we don\u2019t want that\u2026 or do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought-provoking new article poses some hugely important scientific questions: Could brain cells initiated and grown in a lab become sentient? What would that look like, and how could scientists test for it? And would a sentient, lab-grown brain \u201corganoid\u201d have some kind of rights? Buckle up for a quick and dirty history of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}