Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing

Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by lewispollard on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:15AM (#23028949)

> Personhood requires a brain. Period.

Well, it requires a complex nervous system.

How many neurons are there outside of the brain?

How many neurons create a sensing, feeling being?

It's an assumption to say that the only way for consciousness around organic feeling to exist is through a brain. We don't know that.

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Re:Human body-on-chip platform could speed up drug testing by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:25AM (#23029695)

I was under the impression that the nervous system outside the brain is only propagating signals back and forth, and all the actual compute is localized in the brain. If that's true, then the GP's idea makes sense; if it isn't, then that's a can of worms we need to sift through eventually.

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