Cortical Labs Bio-Computing Sparks Substrate Consciousness Debate

Scobleizer argued that cultured neuron systems are still 'melted sand' and that biological uniqueness grants them moral status, while critics countered that carbon atoms feel no pain either, fueling a debate over substrate consciousness sparked by Cortical Labs.

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