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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That’s the tricky bit, how and where does this determination get made? A lot of people believe many animals are non-sentient even if there is strong evidence otherwise. I just think it is pretty fraught territory based on a hypothetical, which is kinda like a rocko’s basilisk thing to me.