[drawingthesun]

It's not needlessly provocative human neurons have shown in almost every study to be superior to all other animal neurons.

Let the backlash happen and as a society let's put a stop to letting religious idiocy get in the way of science.

There is an entire field of study for ethical science and I stand behind that 100%.

Unethical science can get lost!

I'm not a progress at any costs type of person.

But is this actually unethical or just something a religious idiot doesn't like?

[lvass]

Only religious idiots would prefer a "normal" life over having human-brained gorilla chimeras do all the work and just consuming psychotropics all day, right?

[IIAOPSW]

Oh captain my captain, lead me to this promised land!

[rongopo]

Very few people are not brainwashed in one direction or another, there is no need to call them idiots.

[antiterra]

FYI, pretty sure the parent of the comment you’re responding to is the one that’s actually calling them idiots.

[rongopo]

Enough of talking about them, then :)

[TedDoesntTalk]

> human neurons have shown in almost every study to be superior

Until recently I thought a neuron is a neuron is a neuron. How are they different between species?

[drdeca]

My understanding is that they don't just differ between species, but they differ substantially between different types within the same individual.

My understanding is extremely limited.

That being said, my impression is that some of the axiis they can vary on include things like : how they respond to some other chemicals ("neurotransmitters"? not sure if that's the right word) in their environment, whethether they produce/emit those other chemicals, the types of conditions under which they fire (e.g. from how much they "leak" activation over time, counteracting the signals they get sent from others), things like uh, I think(?) whether they tend to fire at a particular rate by default which can be increased or decreased by signals they receive(?) vs whether they by default do not fire unless they receive enough other signals,

I'm unsure of basically all the things I just listed, but my impression is that there are lots of ways they can differ, and they definitely aren't all the same.

[obscur]

I would like a source for the first claim. When I read the preprint for this paper half a year ago it was actually one of their claims that to the best of their knowledge their Pong experiment was the first to show human neurons being ‘better’.