Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create “spare” bodies, both human and nonhuman.
🤓
The Island is a 2005 film, in which the rich clone themself in case of emergency, supposedly with brainless bodies kept on life support. In reality the clones of them possess consciousness, they are kept in a society in a bunker where they are told a deadly pathogen has rendered the earth unliveable except for one remote island where if you’re lucky you win lottery to go live there, the pathogen causes mental degradation as new arrivals have no memory and must relearn how to look after themselves. The truth is they have to learn as they are in fact basically an adult baby, having been made in the time immediate to arriving and the island is a euphemism for having all your organs harvested.
CW SA
And forced pregnancy