Thank you for the compliment, Marcus. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 1:13 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > One way to prepare for decline is to accumulate wealth to share with > children and grandchildren. Another way is to bank stem cells and to stay > fit. But when death comes, I wonder how far we off from being able to > harvest memories from the morphology of dendritic spines? [1] One might > imagine using magnetoencephalography or implants like Neuralink to > spatially map the brain for content (with machine learning + recall > exercises), and then after death do detailed imaging of the tissue > itself. A demo like recovering an image of the subject’s wife just from > brain slices? That would raise some venture capital eh? Throwing away > the hard disk seems crazy with the computer seems pretty wasteful. > Especially for fine specimens like Frank. > > > > [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00031/full > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Jon Zingale > *Sent:* Saturday, October 16, 2021 11:40 AM > *To:* friam@redfish.com > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate > > > > """ > > Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die. So it > > doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated. > > """ > > > > Something similar to that, so thank you for this opportunity to clarify. What > are examples of goals that others not like yourself might have? For one, they > may not think that saving a few million lives is worth preserving the status > quo, the power structures that have the world veering toward its death. I > suggested (with tongue only partially in cheek) that mother nature offered a > solution for recalibrating the power distribution and that we found a > vaccination for it. Sure, hot words, but not that much more triggering than > the shit we usually say in a Friam meeting. I hear ageist, racist and > classist remarks nearly every Friday, so shrug. > > > > For instance, you made it clear that everybody in Pittsburgh knows who is > black and who isn't. Another suggested that life was easier back then. EricC > slid one under your radar by asking if it was based on the standard > definition that of having 1/4 black heritage, to which you thoughtlessly > agreed. Nick or maybe someone else pointed out that the studies did not hold > up in Africa and that the correspondence was maybe not the result of "race" > (whatever that is) but relatively recent cultural pressures (the descendants > of those that did not die on a difficult journey across the ocean and into > slavery to serve your ancestors[!]). > > > > It is clear that continuing to push your personal work is your own narcissism > and not because it is relevant to anything (like your anecdote about StuK and > you bullying some researchers that actually did work into adding you both > onto their paper). What could it mean to be relevant? I leave that to you as > an exercise. > > > > All said, I care about you Frank, and I also must call a spade a spade (that > is a saying isn't it?) There is no reason for you to collect more per month > now than anytime in your working life when so many people continue to work > harder than you could have ever imagined for yourself, often risking their > lives so that some silver fox can demand a refund for their steak being a > little overcooked. I am not asking that you give away your comfort, but to > acknowledge and maybe even attempt to set things right. Btw, I recognize and > deeply respect the good things you are doing for your grandchildren. > > > > What I am asking for is the vulnerability to hear that others may be upset > and their reasons worth feeling. Generationally speaking, I am a genX-er and > we are very clear that there were never enough of us to matter and that the > protests of our generation were quickly silenced by a phony war on terror. > There is no part of me that wishes for what you boomers had (and squandered > in your great numbers), but rather, I wish to understand how to support the > generations after mine that are left with the legacy of boomer > self-obsession. So, um... whatever dude. > > > > [!] But please, tell me again about your native american heritage. > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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