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Currently not. Lab grown meat is a more or less homogeneous mass of muscle fiber. A few years ago we could only make what is essentially minced meat, now we're getting closer to entire steaks. Still far away from growing specific muscle groups, organs, bones and skin.
I mean i theory we can clone mammals, the problem is it would take a long while for your "buddy" to grow up to a usable size
The problem with cloning would also be that a clone of a human is a human with all rights and limitations, the "buddy" would be a slave.
Not after a lobotomy
Performing a lobotomy to a human sounds highly illegal in itself, but as far as I know are lobotomized humans still humans with all human rights.
Well, that's fair enough, but i think we already abandoned legality of the whole operation at the "growing entire human body" part
I don't think that there is a legal issue with that, as long as only a lifeless body is grown
Good, then we're all agreed. I'm gonna fuck a corpse.
It is not a corpse it if was never alive.
The problem with a lifeless body is it will quickly decompose, so it has to have basic functions like breathing and blood pumping
No brain but a microcontroller to give the right electric signals to the lungs and heart.
It is a fascinating Gedankenexperiment, very creepy and dark but fascinating
That could work, yes
(Bezos if you ever do this could you give us a cut of the profits? Thans in advance)
Also i think the word you are looking for is thought experiment (unless german was a stylistic choice)
It was a stylistic choice 😎
Damn. Still incredible stuff though.
How about recreating genital tissue?
BONK
(You are aware that lab-grown meat is still meat and not an independent organism, right? It's essentially dead and would rot within hours if kept at room temperature)
You've got to refrigerate it and keep it in the "Sta-Fresh" pack until ready for use.
Yea. Freeze it, thaw it, microwave it, "use" it, dispose of it.
I'm not actually planning on doing any of that, just talking about what is and isn't theoretically possible.
What about having a life support system connected?