Moral Intuition Regarding the Possibility of Conscious Human Brain Organoids: An Experimental Ethics Study.
Science and engineering ethics December 19, 2024 Koji Ota, Tetsushi Tanibe, Takumi Watanabe et al. 7 citations
The moral status of human brain organoids (HBOs) has been debated in view of the future possibility that they may acquire phenomenal consciousness. This study empirically investigates the moral sensitivity in people's intuitive judgments about actions toward conscious HBOs. The results showed that the presence/absence of pain experience in HBOs affected the judgment about the moral...