Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body.

The BBC being what it is, I got more than halfway through that article before I realised they weren't proposing to revive the isolated brains of dead people in the lab.

That idea is discussed, at least in a hypothetical sense of its ethical implications, in the linked MIT article.

For instance, if a person’s brain were reanimated outside the body, would that person awake in what would amount to the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber, without ears, eyes, or a way to communicate? Would someone retain memories, an identity, or legal rights? Could researchers ethically dissect or dispose of such a brain?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/61100...-body/amp/