• underwire212@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Imagine seeing your dead relative reanimated as a robot so that scientists could study you 🗿

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      5 months ago

      iirc this was a major concern for face transplants. Person A gets horribly burned; person B dies; A gets B’s face; B’s mom sees A walking around with B’s face and has an existential crisis.

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      I mean, animals (birds too) def have grieving rituals (“funerals”) and emotional suffering caused by loss of a close one.

      Seeing a reanimated corpse of that same individual would fuck beyond uncanny-valley anyone.

      And even without knowing the individual prior to assimilation, there is no way birds don’t recognise it as something different.
      It just isn’t physically harming them & won’t go away - what are they supposed to do?