I found out on a recent wikipedia trawl that my view on this is effectively ‘panpsychism’. I don’t think that rocks or the wind have complex thoughts, but I do believe that all matter has some sort of fundamental experience to it, and that this synchronises to make stuff like brains.

I do think plants and some microbes have more complex feelings though :)

that fixed it, thank you so much!

unfortunately I’ve got it on undetermined already :(

I share your wariness; the consensus on all the cross-posts seems to be the danger of it. open source drug testing would surely be vital in something like this.

Metaphorical haunches lowered :)

I’m pretty sure it’s not a bioreactor, since it’s used for organic synthesis. I reckon the purification steps would be a lot even so!

For places besides the USA, which don’t have access to large scale synthesis, I’d imagine it’s more useful. Plus, not everyone can rely on their politicians…