PhD student in Translational and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Rochester
Studying gene-environment interactions and how they affect Alzhiemer's
@PathOfMen_ They do experience it but the biggest difference is modern medicine didn’t extend their lifespans. You can also live 20-40 years without brushing and be completely fine. They also don’t consume as much sugar.
I was just rewatching the Matrix series and saw a post that we can run computations on human brains grown in a vat, which are way more efficient than GPUs. But we need to somehow keep the brains alive and the best way to do that is in a human body ... wait a minute
If a clump of cells is “life” when does it start becoming alive and when does it stop becoming “alive”? At what cell # does it become a “clump of cells”? And at what point should you care?
No one was denying that a cell is “alive”. Prokaryotes are all around us and they are definitely more resilient and alive than a single neuron (single neurons or most other eukaryotic cells just don’t exist in nature). If we are going to call single cell “life” and “conscious” and “sentient” then we’d have to live our lives accepting that we commit microbial genocide everyday