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HISTORIC MOVE IN GENE EDITING. "This past week, scientists from London's Francis Crick Institute applied for approval to edit genes in human embryos. If approved, it will be the world's first approval of such research by a national regulatory body. Last April, a team out of Guangzhou, China reported that they'd been able to edit the genomes of human embryos." (2015). http://singularityhub.com/2015/09/28/a-genomics-revolution-evolution-by-natural-selection-to-evolution-by-intelligent-direction/ View in LinkedIn
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LANDMARK EVENT. "British researchers get green light to genetically modify human embryos. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) regulator approved a licence application by Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, to perform so-called genome editing – also called gene editing – on human embryos.” https://lnkd.in/dz9ri-4 View in LinkedIn
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HISTORIC wet-lab experiments in gene editing, chimeras or brain research form a contextual backdrop for investigations into brain uploading. The key issue is that fully understanding how any of these things work, is simply not required in order to perform these experiments successfully; this is a pedantic myth of the naysayers. View in LinkedIn
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BRAIN UPLOADING. “Harvard’s Lichtman was more comfortable speculating on the concept. “I am not sure any new laws of physics have to be invented as they go forward. It’s not completely impossible, like the idea of putting a cow head on a dog. It’s a science-fiction idea, but making a brain of silicon does not seem crazy to me.” https://lnkd.in/diNvN_w View in LinkedIn
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“WHOLE BRAIN EMULATION (WBE), or "computable brains" by Anders Sandberg and " "Nick Bostrom, of the Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy & James Martin 21st Century School Oxford University. "Such emulation would enable back‐up copies and “digital immortality”. https://lnkd.in/dk2NAB5 View in LinkedIn
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IMMENSE CHALLENGE. “WBE represents a formidable engineering and research problem, yet one which appears to have a well‐defined goal and could, it would seem, be achieved by extrapolations of current technology. This is unlike many other suggested radically transformative technologies like artificial intelligence where we do not have any clear metric of how far we are from success.” (WBE = Whole Brain Emulation). https://lnkd.in/dk2NAB5 View in LinkedIn
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EMULATION. “According to the Church‐Turing thesis, a Turing machine can emulate any other Turing machine. The physical Church‐Turing thesis claims that every physically computable function can be computed by a Turing machine. This is the basis for brain emulation: if brain activity is regarded as a function that is physically computed by brains, then it should be possible to compute it on a Turing machine.” https://lnkd.in/dk2NAB5 View in LinkedIn
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