Farfetched? Not at all. Take a look at U.S. Patent 4666424 on how to keep a severed head alive and U.S. Patent Publication 2024/0292830 on keeping a disembodied brain alive. Re-animating pig ...

Sarah hears a voice the cellar but cannot see that its source is a disembodied brain. This gallery is from Doctor Who (1963–1996) — Season 13 , The Brain of Morbius: Part 2 ...

we might unintentionally create disembodied minds enduring those same conditions. How can we be sure we’re not doing that?