Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create “spare” bodies, both human and nonhuman.
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From the people who brought you “infants don’t feel pain”
If there’s legit no way they have consciousness or anything that’s fine, but I’m skeptical that it’s going to work out like that, in the same way that the Hyperloop turned from “future vacuum tube transport” to “tunnels that are only for teslas”