This hits differently after watching The Substance
Are we sure that’s not just a weirdly angled picture of a chihuahua or muffin?
Everybody wants science to cure cancer, but the moment someone does foundational research they lose their fuckin minds.
Guys, the alternative is cutting up mice and pigs.Yeah, this is pretty far below the level of a mouse even, typically
All I want science to cure is billionaires, we’ll take it from there. Concentrations of wealth that enable making brains grow eyes are a bug, not feature. Ever read “Whitey’s on the Moon”?
That problem is very much one that’s beyond the domain of scientists. That’s like saying “All I want literature to do is decipher the genetic basis of cancer”. Trust me, if science were able to cure billionaires, it would.
Ah yes, the Torment Nexus.
Looks like the Horrors in the Dark will be existential tonight folks!
It has no mouth and it must scream
Aayyy! Nice reference 👉👉
Although l am not knowing too much western things but l know this one
I have no mouth and I must scream, 4k remake
This is how I feel on Sundays.
Me most mornings.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
We out here building torment nexes faster than the SciFi writers can keep up.
I’m sure they can work out a mouth next
Why?
So it can scream
Needs vocal cords and lungs for that.
Alright well then name your short story ‘I have no vocal cords or lungs and I must scream’
Unless you go for Cartesian dualist theories about immaterial souls, consciousness of the sort we experience is an artefact of the structure of our brains and nervous systems, which are large in scale and complex. A small blob of human-derived brain tissue is not going to have consciousness, let alone self-awareness and a sense of horror at its predicament, any more than a 555 timer is capable of playing DOOM by virtue of being made of silicon.
Haha my first thought was “I wonder if it’s possible to build a general purpose CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker.”
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/17/implementing-a-cpu-using-555-timers-and-logic-synthesis/
That’s just resistor-diode logic with a 555 instead of a transistor. That means the timer only does buffering/inverting but not the actual computation.
