I don't know. Good question.
"The lentil-sized organoids... are incapable of thoughts or feelings" #totallyreassured
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/11/scientists-to-grow-mini-brains-using-neanderthal-dna …
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I doubt they were smarter, given their culture and tools, but it's very hard to know.
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But how would we know if they weren't?
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When are scientists going to start cross-brewing humans with non-human primates? Curiously, something which would probably receive less objections to an ethics committee than my research had.
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This is actually very disturbing. On the very surface there's the contradiction that 1) they don't know enough about what the difference in DNA will do to the brain to know how they will differ from modern humans...
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and 2) they are creating such a brain anyways, necessarily without knowing the ethical implications. You can't know that the brain will not be sufficiently human-like when the thing your studying is "how human-like is this brain"
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