{"id":82296,"date":"2018-09-04T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind-and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas"},"modified":"2018-09-04T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:02:20","slug":"lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind-and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind-and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown brain bits open windows to the mind \u2014 and a maze of ethical dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind-and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, minibrains are far from anything approaching moral personhood in a dish, and the technology may never come close. But the rapid pace of progress on organoids has led scientists and ethicists to call for a public ethical discussion that can move in tandem with the research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Human \u2018minibrains\u2019 are far from conscious, but scientists say it\u2019s time to talk about ethics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind--and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas\/2018\/09\/02\/9a76efee-a25b-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ea0bb73f932d\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/lab-grown-brain-bits-op...0bb73f932d<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, minibrains are far from anything approaching moral personhood in a dish, and the technology may never come close. But the rapid pace of progress on organoids has led scientists and ethicists to call for a public ethical discussion that can move in tandem with the research. Human \u2018minibrains\u2019 are far from conscious, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82296","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}