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Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create βspareβ bodies, both human and nonhuman.
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It's hard to say, since despite the article's vague assertion that the technology is nearing, this is still purely speculative science fiction. What's keeping the organ alive and growing? It needs some sort of life support system. The only existing life support system we have for organs is the rest of the body. The alternative is... some sort of organ scaffold in a nutrient bath? Who knows, either way we're making up technologies.
Also a whole body allows a whole body transplant (brain transplant) which, while often overkill, would work on most things. (Brain transplants aren't possible yet, but scientists are working on that one, and I'd bet it's doable before growing a body is.)
Would be kinda dope to get a biologically compatible vagina out of this but I can tell you it'd be sure freaky to see the body you're going to get implanted in
have you seen "Infinity Pool"? It's not really about that exact concept, but something along those lines
not a plot spoiler, just a thematic spoiler
what if you could get a ethics transplant (kind of the liberal wet dream β a little flesh puppet that can carry your sins so you can freely engage in consequence-free hedonism)
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