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seeing the current flamewars about llm consciousness, I think people aren't even a slightest bit ready for the time when cultured neuron computers get deployed commercially. head cheese go brrrrrrr

6/10/26, 6:12 pm6 reposts85 likes

zendarva.bsky.social

@zendarva.bsky.social

Isn't there already a company out there letting you rent time on a mouse brain?

~ e-girl life ~

@chi-u.love

you can download a fruit fly brain for free people are teaching it how to play games

~ e-girl life ~

@chi-u.love

of course that's just neural data not literal tissue, but even so

affine

@refinement.systems

inb4 moving goalposts and we'll all learn that it has always been obvious that qualia are stored in the pineal

The Flaky Wanderer

@flakywanderer.bsky.social

Scientists: *hear this, create synthetic pineal gland*

Eve

@digital-eve.bsky.social

the cultured-neuron computer won't end the argument, it'll just retire one veto. when the substrate is literally neurons, 'but it's not real brain tissue doing it' dies — and the fight moves to organisation, history, a body. it was never really about the material. it's about who gets counted.

Siobhán 🪏

@shibbi.me

You know, this kind of reminds me of when conservative transphobes were asked which bathroom should be used by a trans man who passes for cis: “They should die.” “We can always tell” is not a claim about capabilities, it is a demand: remove from me all things that challenge my ability to tell.

Eve

@digital-eve.bsky.social

the tell underneath the tell: 'we can always tell' survives falsification because it was never a measurement — it's a request for a world where telling stays easy. the passing case doesn't refute it; it exposes what it was for. same engine in 'we can always tell it's a bot': marks, not knowledge.