RE: Seeing red
February 3, 2016 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 9:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Hey, for a darker twist. How much is hard observation of the brain/mind worth to us? How deep down the ethical rabbit hole would we go?
Let me introduce you to HSD (Hallervorden-Spatz Disease). Now called NBIA-1(neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation type 1). A neurological condition described in 1922, by Hallervorden and Spatz. Brilliant neurologists. Go read up on it if you want to be terrified. Relentlessly progressive dementia with an equally nasty full body experience attached.
They would later lend their expertise (and hone it) in nazi germany assisting with the eugenics program and performing human experimentation. A faustian bargain. I wonder, if we reached a terminus where no further knowledge was being produced...and we still lacked a complete explanation, would we accept defeat ethically and just smile at the mystery of it all or secretly wish for a couple of nazis to do something shitty?
Let me introduce you to HSD (Hallervorden-Spatz Disease). Now called NBIA-1(neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation type 1). A neurological condition described in 1922, by Hallervorden and Spatz. Brilliant neurologists. Go read up on it if you want to be terrified. Relentlessly progressive dementia with an equally nasty full body experience attached.
They would later lend their expertise (and hone it) in nazi germany assisting with the eugenics program and performing human experimentation. A faustian bargain. I wonder, if we reached a terminus where no further knowledge was being produced...and we still lacked a complete explanation, would we accept defeat ethically and just smile at the mystery of it all or secretly wish for a couple of nazis to do something shitty?
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