In his book, Being You, Anil Seth mentions cerebral organoids: “tiny brain-like structures, made of real neurons, that are grown from human pluripotent stem cells.” I’d never heard of them before. They are interesting—and, potentially, morally relevant. I wanted to make this short post to flag them up to EA Forum users.
Cerebral organoids
In his book, Being You, Anil Seth mentions cerebral organoids: “tiny brain-like structures, made of real neurons, that are grown from human pluripotent stem cells.” I’d never heard of them before. They are interesting—and, potentially, morally relevant. I wanted to make this short post to flag them up to EA Forum users.
Wikipedia entry on them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_organoid