Could we get to a point where we could grow humans and harvest them?

[Jaylock]

Do you think we will ever get to a point in history where we could actually grow humans and harvest them?

Maybe something for like organ replacements, babies, etc? Kind of like the movie The Island?

[W1sp]

Isnt this what we are already doing on a massive scale? Poor people sell their organs to rich people for monayz?

[Chasavaqe]

I wouldn't see a problem with growing humans that lack brains just so the parts can be used for transplants. If that's even a possibility due to how much a brain regulates all of the body's processes, I'm not sure. But if it is a possibility, I'm all for it.

[Cosmic Janitor]

We already do that. These herds are called communities.. they also comes in different sizes, they are called villages, towns, cities, etc.

[Ripster42]

No. Organs are much more likely to be grown piecemeal. Because even if you don't have moral objections to growing humans, and some investors might not have moral objections to growing humans for harvesting, you can bet enough people do have moral objections that it would just be easier to continue with the approach we have going now for growing organs, and just refine it to produce more and more complex organs.

[whywhatwhowhenhow]

Sounds like someone's been watching the matrix.

Nah, no need. We just donate organs when we die. Works fine and isn't barbaric like growing people just for this purpose.

[Jaylock]

Sounds like someone's been watching the matrix.

Nah, no need. We just donate organs when we die. Works fine and isn't barbaric like growing people just for this purpose.

Could we ever get to a point where we could grow humans for power and energy like what was done in the matrix?

If you put the human body into an unconscious state, maybe it could work.

[Ebalina]

We already do it.

Some one smaller scale others on much bigger.

[zenkai]

Sounds like someone's been watching the matrix.

Nah, no need. We just donate organs when we die. Works fine and isn't barbaric like growing people just for this purpose.

Or Man of Steel.

[Yvaelle]

We already grow humans and harvest them through their labour and cat gifs.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Could we ever get to a point where we could grow humans for power and energy like what was done in the matrix?

If you put the human body into an unconscious state, maybe it could work.

That part is the most idiotic of all about the matrix. The human body is a net loss when it comes to energy conversion. Using humans for energy would be the least efficient way you could try to get energy..

[whywhatwhowhenhow]

Could we ever get to a point where we could grow humans for power and energy like what was done in the matrix?

If you put the human body into an unconscious state, maybe it could work.

I doubt it. I don't think we give off much energy really, maybe minute amounts of electric and body heat. Would be better just to burn the bodies and use the energy from that.

Always going to be more efficient and substainable ways to power our planet. Look into Helium-3.

[Phookah]

No. The energy input required to produce a fully grown healthy human is greater than the energy output they'd provide.

[Independent voter]

They grow a bunch of stuff in test tubes now, I don't know if they are using it, but they plan to. In one article they were growing an ear to replace a patient's missing ear.

[BannedForViews]

Do you think we will ever get to a point in history where we could actually grow humans and harvest them?

Maybe something for like organ replacements, babies, etc? Kind of like the movie The Island?

Don't the Vampires already do this?

[Thoughtcrime]

It's highly inefficient, morally dubious, and politically suicidal. It makes far more sense to continue refining and expanding on the work already being done. Growing replacement parts from the stem cells of the patient in question.

[BannedForViews]

No. The energy input required to produce a fully grown healthy human is greater than the energy output they'd provide.

I don't agree. If you are talking about something like organ harvesting from young humans, the demand is much more important than the "energy" cost.

[Forgettable]

We already do this. Abortion.

[Deleted]

No. Organs are much more likely to be grown piecemeal. Because even if you don't have moral objections to growing humans, and some investors might not have moral objections to growing humans for harvesting, you can bet enough people do have moral objections that it would just be easier to continue with the approach we have going now for growing organs, and just refine it to produce more and more complex organs.

And think of all the waste growing whole humans would produce.

We already do this. Abortion.

How many fetal organs have been successfully transplanted?

[Cosmic Janitor]

I don't agree. If you are talking about something like organ harvesting from young humans, the demand is much more important than the "energy" cost.

Might have been a response to the matrix example.