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BACTERIAL CULTURAL MEMORY. “We know that bacteria record their past experiences and that ancestor bacteria can influence progeny in ways other than by stable mutations.”" "(Chapter 10) https://lnkd.in/dH829kt View in LinkedIn

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

QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS? “While practically all neuroscientists subscribe to the dogma that neural activity is a phenomenon that occurs on a classical scale, there have been proposals (mainly from physicists) that quantum effects play an important role in the function of the brain (Penrose). So far there is no evidence for quantum effects in the brain beyond quantum chemistry, and no evidence that such effects play an important role for intelligence or consciousness.” https://lnkd.in/dk2NAB5 View in LinkedIn