{"id":228318,"date":"2026-01-03T22:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:11:23","slug":"five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics","title":{"rendered":"Five-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergartener\u2019s Neural Wiring. It\u2019s Time to Talk Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious\u2014and how would we know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious\u2014and how would we know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228318","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}