Haha, you made me laugh quite a bit, like ethical due diligence was even a bleep in the mental model of someone who talks like that about sentiment life forms.

I figure I'd get some mice fed to pythons.

You know, the ones swallowed head first and alive and then drown in stomach acid, the ones you can buy in pet any store?

Yeah, "nature is brutal, therefore what gives if i raise the bar in the suffering we bring to this world", great logic right there mate, specially when we all know such experiments are without the slightest shred of doubt aimed to end up using humans neurons, because those are the most powerful.