I found out on a recent wikipedia trawl that my view on this is effectively ‘panpsychism’. I don’t think that rocks or the wind have complex thoughts, but I do believe that all matter has some sort of fundamental experience to it, and that this synchronises to make stuff like brains.

I do think plants and some microbes have more complex feelings though :)

wow, people really underestimate the ground! same with plants too, most of their life goes on below our feet…

that fixed it, thank you so much!

unfortunately I’ve got it on undetermined already :(

spooky! what kind of stuff?

I share your wariness; the consensus on all the cross-posts seems to be the danger of it. open source drug testing would surely be vital in something like this.

Metaphorical haunches lowered :)

I’m pretty sure it’s not a bioreactor, since it’s used for organic synthesis. I reckon the purification steps would be a lot even so!

For places besides the USA, which don’t have access to large scale synthesis, I’d imagine it’s more useful. Plus, not everyone can rely on their politicians…