Re:In the future, lab mice will live in computer chips, not ...
by nunja on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:18AM
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Maybe pain is a part of the treatment as any body/antibody response. It is a push notification mechanism designed in a million of years of evolution for a reason.
But I agree that it might be deprecated soon.
I would not say that a body incapable of feeling pain is an "inadequate replica". A human or animal under anaesthetic does not feel pain - are they inadequate. You can certainly perform surgery on an unconscious person, and you can administer medications to them.
[edit] I should have added that I am totally in agreement that we are not even close to being able to simulate a human body with any degree of accuracy.