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Re:Pig brains partially revived four hours after death by nabla9 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:20PM (#19685078)
Your brain is one of the first 543 experiments in a private laboratory. Researchers convinced ethical board that brains were not really alive. Brains were kept alive average 3 years, but no "contact" was officially attempted to avoid legal or ethical issues. There are rumors of some extracurricular activity happening.

Your contribution is not wasted however. First brain that was able to talk to the world and received full human rights was Peter Thiel's brain.

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Re:Pig brains partially revived four hours after death by sircastor on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:10PM (#19686050)
This Reminds me of Scalzi's "Locked In" series where a disease causes a portion of the population to be conscious, but totally disconnected from their bodies. The supplemental material describes I how the first attempts to interact with these people was performed on prison inmates.
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