And ... Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1
I've been guilty of calling the "brain in a vat" thought experiment silly. I'll have to stop doing that now. On 4/17/19 4:09 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
< As an (apparent) proponent of fairly aggressive trans-humanism, can you elaborate on what you see as the biggest promises/cautions to the ideas involved? > Here are a couple in the news recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/gene-therapy-cures-infants-with-bubble-boy-immune-disease/2019/04/17/ec4b131e-60ff-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/cm_lFZDERHcELSPw2fEioYAgqbNOHU3t/the-chairman-aclu-genetic-revolution/ (29 minutes 37 seconds in) I call it re-programming, and programs can do anything.
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