William Hearst is to Alfred Hitchcock as Kevin Hart is to Diddy

https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/brain-dead-people-are-being-used-for-science-experiments/?utm_source=most_recent

Imagine an intensive care unit full of people. Monitors glow with electrocardiogram tracings, blood pressure measurements, and oxygenation readings. Ventilators whir as air is pumped in and out of lungs and feeding tubes drip nutrients. But these people are not getting better. They are “neomorts:” people with severe neurological injuries whose families have consented to allowing doctors to use their living bodies for experimentation.

In a recent podcast, bioethicist Arthur Caplan proudly proclaimed that he has pioneered using critically disabled people for research at NYU Langone Health in wards that he calls “bioemporia.” Dr. Caplan says that he discovered the idea of neomorts and bioemporia in an essay written by Dr. Willard Gaylin, a psychiatrist, for Harper’s Magazine in 1974 called “Harvesting the Dead.” In his article, Dr. Gaylin was pointing out the ethical risks inherent in the brain death concept by suggesting (tongue-in-cheek) that we could stockpile these neurologically injured people (who he christened “neomorts”) in centers called “bioemporia” — where we could experiment on them to our hearts’ delight.

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Caplan says that not only is there now a bioemporium at NYU there are dozens starting up all over the country using “brain dead” people for drug testing and other research purposes. Caplan admits in the podcast that people with a brain death diagnosis are not biologically dead but that their “deaths” are a social construct — which is why they can be successfully kept on life support for these experiments.

It is highly unlikely that the families of these unfortunate people are being informed that their loved ones are only “socially dead” when doctors obtain “consent” for these experiments. When people who are registered organ donors have infections or other conditions that make them unable to donate, the family is approached and asked if doctors might keep their loved one on life support to do some tests. According to Caplan:

We started by saying that it might advance transplant. We’re going to study something, maybe an artificial organ or some immune suppressing drug. And if you give us permission — they wanted to be organ donors, but they can’t, they clearly wanted to help — let’s do it that way. And if the family concurred (which reminding listeners, they don’t have to legally in an organ donation situation, but we were trying to be safe here in this idea of studying the body) if we take them for 72 hours, would you give us permission? And a lot of people did.

The foundational Zen concept of Shoshin (beginner's mind) is even trained into navy seals(student of the game). Dont stop asking questions. Dont trade certainty for wonder!!! Certainty is where growth goes to DIE!!! The walls go up to protect certainty. Dont let them. Not confidence but openess. Choose the novice mind every day!!!

Just seems so empty ultimately to me. I grant is strong, but do people have dreams for future?

Speaker recommends a date, it seems promising, author underestimates own importance I guess

The circular financing, the lack of product, the underwhelming results, in concert with the obviously inflated valuations and lack of government involvement on any market level leads one to believe that this entire house of cards is doomed to fail. The only question is when.

The next question is what happens afterwards. They've floated the idea of a government bailout. Which is what I think the pretense of the IPOs was truly for, to bind the fate of the stockmarket to these companies, and to force the government to step in whether the people want it or not.

The terms of that bailout was what I was thinking about. It seems extremely likely that the government would take ownership of some or all of the compute capacity formerly owned or leased by these companies. It would give them access to an extremely powerful resource, put to another use, and it would allow them to sidestep all the "anti-military" and "anti-government" sentiment currently in the workforce of these companies.

The real worry is that they then take all of the data they currently have, all federal surveillance cameras, all prison cameras, all the flock and ring and other private cloud based surveillance systems, and start feeding that into the system. Then combine that with all the data they've been hoarding off the Internet for more than 2 decades in data centers in Utah and run it through inference and training and you've got a powerful citizen prediction model that could be used for anything.

Westworld season 2 and 3 were a joke, but the idea of something like the Rehoboam starts to look more and more real.

This is pure theory. Thoughts?

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