We happened to read this article in my Intro to Psychology class and it made me think about science fiction. Sestan’s experiment with the BrainEx machine sparked a wave of media coverage, with much of it misrepresenting his project and jumping to wild conclusions. The idea of “bringing brains back to life” is a scary one and requires a lot of thought on whether the scientific world should even proceed with an experiment like this- maybe it’s better to invest our resources into something else. But someone may continue developing this technology–someone less concerned with the ethics than Sestan. The future of this technology could be dangerous in the wrong hands, and is one that has been explored before in SF literature.