Actually, the Futurama version reminds me more of Abby Normal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q
Oh, and poor attempts at humour are my defense against bad news - this time about Glen. I can sympathize - this time last year I had just been told I don't have lymphoma. Of course, what I have is, as usual, a disease of unknown origin with symptomatic treatment at best. There's a reason that what doctors do is called "practice". Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) On Sep 24, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Right! > > http://alcor.org/AtWork/index.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Parks, Raymond > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:39 AM > To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue > into Chimerism and Epigenetics) > > It would be much more convenient to store your head in a jar, a la Futurama. > And more comedic. > > Ray Parks > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Marcus Daniels [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 09:33 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into > Chimerism and Epigenetics) > > Well, I assume that if my connectome could be scanned with sufficient > fidelity, and stored in a computer, that it would be possible, someday, to > both query my memories, but also to measure emotional responses, in silico. > Probably even start and stop consciousness. The trick would be figuring > out the interfaces, but obvious places to start would be the visual cortex, > auditory centers, and various incoming nerves. It could sort of be > approaches as a machine learning problem, like is beginning to be done with > replacement limbs. > > Sure there are aspects of my physical self that are slightly unique to me, > but I would expect they are modularized. The experience of running, typing, > and so on. But those things aren't me. If anything, it would seem to be > thrilling to experience other real or simulated nervous systems. > > Yes, I know, what huge waste of disk space! > Btw, what rights do the dead have to their own memories? A whole new field > of IP law! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:22 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] I am Cancer, hear me roar! (with segue into Chimerism and > Epigenetics) > > Glen/Nick - >>> Having said that, am I allowed to say, "Crap! I wish you didn't have >>> cancer!' >> Of course. Thanks. But just to be argumentative, > ... >> I am cancer. It's probably not true of all cancers, though. > I recently had a long conversation with a Muslim friend from Australia who > donated her bone marrow to her sister to replace hers after it was > deliberately destroyed by chemo/rad to stop *her* cancer. > > This was against Islamic law but she and her family felt like they had still > done the right thing. She is now hyper aware that her sister is a > Chimera, though she didn't have the term for it. She believes that her > sister underwent a radical personality change after the > transplant/recovery and wants to attribute it to the "transplant". At > first I wanted to dismiss this but on a little reflection and study, I am > more sympathetic to her position. > > The more I read about hematopoietic cell transplant and lateral genetic > transference, the curiouser it all gets! I feel like we need the molecular > biology equivalent of Oliver Sacks (RIP) in the house to bring a more popular > understanding to the table of this fascinating field! > > I was fascinated as a child to learn about tree grafting in nut and citrus > orchards, and later organ transplants in humans, but this goes a > step further since it is roughly "systemic". This also lead me to > reflect on birth-chimeras where multiple zygotes fuse early on to yield a > single fetus and ultimately full human organism but with a mixture of cells > with filial genomics. > > I have friends who are "mirror" twins who each have a third nipple on > opposite sides of their body (slightly lower than the conventional location). > They believed this to suggest that they had begun as triplets and that there > was such a fusion during the early embryological > process. I didn't recognize any other chimeric properties (sometimes > evidenced by piebald skin or hair markings). > > This is NOT your father's Genetics! My father studied biology in the > late 1940s, my own molecular biology experience is roughly circa 1984, and my > daughter's PhD in molecular biology is only about 7 years old now, yet *even > her* "book larnin' " in the general field, and in particular epigenetics is > getting stale fast! > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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