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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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2045 MANIFESTO. "We believe that before 2045 an artificial body will be created that will not only surpass the existing body in terms of functionality, but will achieve perfection of form and be no less attractive than the human body. People will make independent decisions about the extension of their lives and the possibilities for personal development in a new body after the resources of the biological body have been exhausted.” http://2045.com/manifest/ View in LinkedIn

ANDROID AVATAR. “Dmitry Itskov wants to live forever. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul thinks he can do this by building himself (and everyone) an android body by the year 2045.” https://lnkd.in/dyCbwDs View in LinkedIn

SILICON BRAIN INITIATIVE. “The European Union, for example, recently announced it was funding a $1.3 billion project to build a human brain on a silicon substrate. That’s about 1.5 cents per neuron. Swiss neuroscientist Henry Markham, who is behind the Human Brain Project, has already started work on building a simulated rat brain.” https://lnkd.in/dPDby37 View in LinkedIn

BACK OF ENVELOPE. “Assuming 7.1 microtubules per square μm and 768.9 μm in average length and that 1/30 of brain volume is neurons (although given that microtubule networks occurs in all cells, glia – and any other cell type! – may count too) gives 10(16) microtubules. If each stores just a single quantum bit this would correspond to a 10(16) qubit system, requiring a physically intractable 2(10)^16 bit classical computer to emulate. If only the microtubules inside a cell act as a quantum computing network, the emulation would have to include 10(11) connected 130,000 qubit quantum computers.” https://lnkd.in/dk2NAB5 View in LinkedIn

“PENROSE argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine-type of digital computer. Penrose hypothesizes that quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness. The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is seen as playing an important role in brain function.” https://lnkd.in/dSPWCvA View in LinkedIn

BEYOND COMPUTATION. “Penrose hypothesizes that: Human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modelled by a conventional Turing machine-type of digital computer. Quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness, specifically, he believes that microtubules within neurons support quantum superpositions.The objective collapse of the quantum wavefunction of the microtubules is critical for consciousness. The human mind has abilities that no Turing machine could possess because of this mechanism of non-computable physics.” https://lnkd.in/ds6KwVD View in LinkedIn