Disembodied Brains
Subtitle: Understanding Our Intuitions on Neuro Chimeras and Human-Brain Organoids
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780197750711
First sentence: In one of the most successful films of 1968, moviegoers saw Charlton Heston star as an
astronaut who travels to a strange planet, where he encounters a species of intelligent talking
apes who dominate the mute and primitive humans who share the planet.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter 1
title: The Science and Public Ethics of Neuro-Chimeric Animals and Human-Brain Organoids
pagenum: 8; label: Chapter 2
title: What We Know about the Public’s Views of Humans
pagenum: 22; label: Chapter 3
title: The Public’s View of Human-Brain Organoids and Neuro-Chimeric Animals
pagenum: 37; label: Chapter 4
title: Consciousness, the Human-Animal Foundational Distinction, and Ephemeral Connections to Humans
pagenum: 50; label: Chapter 5
title: Views of Nature, Religion, and the Cultural Authority of Science
pagenum: 64; label: Chapter 6
title: What Is to Be Done?
pagenum: 83; title: Methodological Appendix
pagenum: 103; title: Notes
pagenum: 112; title: Works Cited
pagenum: 141; title: Index
pagenum: 154