And then what will we die of?
Before we make life infinite, we better change the laws to make death voluntary. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 1:24 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize? A couple articles in this week’s Science relating to the programmability of cells. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987 “This enables the design of cycles and developmental networks for engineering applications that require that cells exist in a particular state for an unspecified amount of time. For example, therapeutic cells could be built to sense transient stimuli, such as throughout the gastrointestinal tract, and switch to a new state when the next signal is encountered. There are similar applications for diagnostic cells ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-48> 48, <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-76> 76– <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-81> 81), pathways to complex chemicals and materials that require cycles of ordered operations ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-82> 82), and sentinel plants and microbes with responsive traits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-31> 31, <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-83> 83, <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-84> 84).” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252 “For example, existing cancer-detection circuits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-66> 66, <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-67> 67) could conditionally express CHOMP components to increase specificity and couple to protein-mediated inputs and outputs. Integrating these capabilities, one can envision smart therapeutics or sentinels based on CHOMP circuits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-68> 68, <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-69> 69).” And those are the just some of the friendly applications. Marcus
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