more science memes

chimeric human-animals built for the sake of understanding brain function. but will we accidentally (or intentionally, for that matter) produce a conscious human in a mouse body?

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this blend of art and science uses this technique called plastination to dissolve parts of the body while preserving the forms of others in plastic, leaving only an imprint of the desired tissues, such as the muscle system or the nervous system. apparently, at one of these exhibits in previous years, there was a man of neurons sitting on a horse of muscle and holding in one hand his own skull and the horse's skull in the other.