Zombie Pig? Frankenswine?

[Paratus]

So a group of scientists have managed to restart some biological processes in the brains of decapitated pigs....

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...tore-some-function-in-the-brains-of-dead-pigs



(Although I guess it would actually be Frankenswines monster)

 

[NAC4EV]

look here.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...four-hours-after-death.2564095/#post-39795507

 

[Paratus]

look here.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...four-hours-after-death.2564095/#post-39795507

That’s OT.

 

[TheELF]

Welcome to the world of tomorrow.

 

[woolfe9998]

That’s OT.

Which is why the responses consist of jokes about pig zombies and nothing about the potential of the research. Which apparently is this:

What's more, she adds, "immediately people are going to recognize the potential of this research. If, in fact, it is possible to restore cellular activity to brain tissue that we thought was irreversibly lost in the past, of course people are going to want to apply this eventually in humans."

 

[Bitek]

RoboCop 2019?

Serious ethics dilemmas this research raises however. Not only did the poor animal get chopped up for food, it ends it's day being reanimated as a bodiless brain in a tank as the rest of itself was actively being turned into bacon.
Hell of a Monday.

The experiment included neuro suppressors so no EEG signals could be detected, but obviously we really can't know what the experience was.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ah! Reminds me of the horror film, "The Frozen Dead", featuring Dana Andrews as the mad scientist.

He has this woman's head in a shallow pan filled with living-k blutt, with tubes and stuff feeding it -- his gurr-eat verk -- his magnificent experiment!

Somewhere in that movie, he's down in his cellar laboratory during a cathartic moment in the movie.

And the head says to him "Kill me! Kill me! Please -- Kill me!"

You can see that I was raised properly on a steady diet of weekly horror films. At some point during my late grade-school years, watching horror movies was the biggest obsession of our young lives. Those were the days!

We were so lucky in our sophisticated and refined cultural development. Pinnacles of Civilization -- we!

 

[fskimospy]

Frankenswine is an excellent name.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Now I have to carry a machete all the time dammit.

 

[pmv]

...scans article for any mention of Herbert West or Miskatonic University.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I recall seeing a video of allegedly some old Soviet experimentation when they did this with a dog/dog's head.

Spoiler: WARNING graphic

 

[dank69]

Which is why the responses consist of jokes about pig zombies and nothing about the potential of the research. Which apparently is this:

Who is starting the petition to nominate SlowSpyder for the first human test subject?

 

[hal2kilo]

Ah! Reminds me of the horror film, "The Frozen Dead", featuring Dana Andrews as the mad scientist.

He has this woman's head in a shallow pan filled with living-k blutt, with tubes and stuff feeding it -- his gurr-eat verk -- his magnificent experiment!

Somewhere in that movie, he's down in his cellar laboratory during a cathartic moment in the movie.

And the head says to him "Kill me! Kill me! Please -- Kill me!"



We were so lucky in our sophisticated and refined cultural development. Pinnacles of Civilization -- we!

You can see that I was raised properly on a steady diet of weekly horror films. At some point during my late grade-school years, watching horror movies was the biggest obsession of our young lives. Those were the days!

Oh yea, that's a classic. Me too.
Be nice if the program was smart enough to move quoted material out of the collaped text that you are referencing.

 

[kage69]

That's nuts, just imagine where this could lead. That and the 42,000 year old mummified foal that gave up liquid blood. Damn science, you crazy.

Who is starting the petition to nominate SlowSpyder for the first human test subject?

Pretty sure they'd want a test cranium that doesn't require extraction. Additional procedures just eat up those grants.

 

[Maxima1]

That's nuts, just imagine where this could lead. That and the 42,000 year old mummified foal that gave up liquid blood. Damn science, you crazy.



Pretty sure they'd want a test cranium that doesn't require extraction. Additional procedures just eat up those grants.

Just in...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190412094736.htm

Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts 'within decades'
A 'human brain/cloud interface' will give people instant access to vast knowledge and computing power via thought alone, predict experts

Writing in Frontiers in Neuroscience, an international collaboration led by researchers at UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular Manufacturing predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, AI, and computation will lead this century to the development of a "Human Brain/Cloud Interface" (B/CI), that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud-computing networks in real time.

[...]

Researchers predict that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, artificial intelligence, and computation will lead this century to the development of a 'human brain/cloud interface' (B/CI), that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud-computing networks in real time.

[...]

B/CI technology might also allow us to create a future "global superbrain" that would connect networks of individual human brains and AIs to enable collective thought.
[...]

"With the advance of neuralnanorobotics, we envisage the future creation of 'superbrains' that can harness the thoughts and thinking power of any number of humans and machines in real time. This shared cognition could revolutionize democracy, enhance empathy, and ultimately unite culturally diverse groups into a truly global society."

[...]"

 

[pmv]

Just in...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190412094736.htm

Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts 'within decades'
A 'human brain/cloud interface' will give people instant access to vast knowledge and computing power via thought alone, predict experts

Writing in Frontiers in Neuroscience, an international collaboration led by researchers at UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular Manufacturing predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, AI, and computation will lead this century to the development of a "Human Brain/Cloud Interface" (B/CI), that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud-computing networks in real time.

[...]

Researchers predict that exponential progress in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, artificial intelligence, and computation will lead this century to the development of a 'human brain/cloud interface' (B/CI), that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to vast cloud-computing networks in real time.

[...]

B/CI technology might also allow us to create a future "global superbrain" that would connect networks of individual human brains and AIs to enable collective thought.
[...]

"With the advance of neuralnanorobotics, we envisage the future creation of 'superbrains' that can harness the thoughts and thinking power of any number of humans and machines in real time. This shared cognition could revolutionize democracy, enhance empathy, and ultimately unite culturally diverse groups into a truly global society."

[...]"

We're going to become the Borg?

 

[soundforbjt]

We're going to become the Borg?

Trump's base already beat you to it.