| For now. I've got no idea how far we are from useful bio-printing, as I've been seeing the same headlines for the last 30 years: here's some cartilage and by the way we're also working on internal organs. The famous mouse — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse History from a research lab — https://school.wakehealth.edu/research/institutes-and-center... TED-Ed: Printing a human kidney - Anthony Atala — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3C201O4MA The Thought Emporium: This Machine Grows Living Flesh — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZGq8Tah0k Matt Gray is Trying: biomedical research — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DvJauB0KyU Specifically, think about what The Thought Emporium is trying to do: make a living meat robot. Imagine they succeed. I have no idea how long this will take, so your imagination is all you have for now. Flesh on the outside, robot brain on the inside. Done right, I doubt we could tell them apart from real humans. Worse: I'm sure we'll falsely convince ourselves that there is a way distinguish nature from artifice, and many natural humans will be dehumanised and killed as a result. (And that's a separate question to "have we made a machine that has qualia?") But for now, sure, it's easy to tell humans and robots apart when you get to meet them in person. |