Eliza Goddard

Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness: Moral Claims and Epistemic Uncertainty

Organoids February 7, 2023 Eliza Goddard, Eva Tomaskovic-Crook, J. Crook et al.

Human brain organoids provide a remarkable opportunity to model prenatal human brain biology in vitro by recapitulating features of in utero molecular, cellular and systems biology. An ethical concern peculiar to human brain organoids is whether they are or could become capable of supporting sentience through the experience of pain or pleasure and/or consciousness, including higher cognitive...