While unlike you I can not say confidently I know how radiation actually works. I am not sure I would even if I had a phd in Nuclear Physics however I know enough to treat something I cannot touch,hear,taste or smell with a healthy dose of fear.
Beware the evil photon, spawn of electromagnetic radiation...
You misspelled "Lord Roosevelt". It started a long time before you were born. It's just now getting to the point where even a blind man can recognize it. Still a lot of stupid people here who don't.
Even worse, the govt. expects us to fear each other, and not depend on ourselves and not help each other. They want each of us to fear everyone around, because they claim anyone can be a terrorist, so you never know, and can't depend on anyone near you (except "authorized" govt. personell). It's one way the KGB/NKVD/Gestapo/Name your agency were able to "maintain order" by instilling fear of your neighbor.
The main question is, are "you" the gooey bits inside your head, or are "you" the patterns that are formed and are constantly forming in those gooey bits? That's the question Shirow asks in "Ghost in the Shell" all the time. His characters believe that the person is the "ghost", that pattern which doesn't arise by accident just because the substrate can handle the pattern.
Also, in "GitS", the brain cells aren't replaced, they're augmented by processors, one for each cell, that communicate to the cell and also each other and the outside world. The article describes the ability to crudely duplicate one function and communicate with the rest of the brain, which is one step along the way toward a "cyberbrain", just like being able to purify silicon is one step toward an Android tablet. There are a whole lot more things that have to be done, if they even can be.
But if we end up being able to completely replace a brain cell, would it really matter if the cell is made of silicon or a stem cell? After a stroke or Alzheimers, the original is gone, so are you really "you" after a stroke?
If bits of the brain can be mapped and replaced at the lowest level (eventually) you'd end up with being able to communicate with a brain at the lowest level by not removing the old bits, but leaving the new bits alongside them, monitoring and sending information with them. A Shirow-style "cyberbrain" from "Ghost in the Shell".
Since my Dad and his father had Alzheimers or dementia, and my Mom was prone to strokes, I'm hoping to live long to use (and have enough neurons left to appreciate using) something like this technology.
I wish I could have found your company back in '08, when I had one hiring person tell me explicity that I was too old, that they were looking for someone to "grow into the position." So, it is out there, but not universal. And damnably hard to prove, to boot.
It's not the poster who holds that notion, it's the entire Japanese culture. Although to hear a couple of old-timers (even older than me) there talk, some of the respect is less forthcoming from the post-Boomers. The idea probably came about from centuries ago, where if you could figure out how to live long enough to become old, you must have something on the ball (they didn't know about genetics etc. back then) and should be listened to.
However, to quote a certain cantankerous old Starfleet Admiral, "all this fuss just because I haven't died, yet!"
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Beware the evil photon, spawn of electromagnetic radiation...
You misspelled "Lord Roosevelt". It started a long time before you were born. It's just now getting to the point where even a blind man can recognize it. Still a lot of stupid people here who don't.
Even worse, the govt. expects us to fear each other, and not depend on ourselves and not help each other. They want each of us to fear everyone around, because they claim anyone can be a terrorist, so you never know, and can't depend on anyone near you (except "authorized" govt. personell). It's one way the KGB/NKVD/Gestapo/Name your agency were able to "maintain order" by instilling fear of your neighbor.
TSA Blue is the new brown.
Tell your Mom to pay her electric bill and you will...
If'n 'taint source, 'taint crap.
Assertion is all the proof needed, or haven't you been paying attention to politics (and Slashdot) for the past decade or so?
I'm always here, but I'm not all there. I'm not all that, either.
The main question is, are "you" the gooey bits inside your head, or are "you" the patterns that are formed and are constantly forming in those gooey bits? That's the question Shirow asks in "Ghost in the Shell" all the time. His characters believe that the person is the "ghost", that pattern which doesn't arise by accident just because the substrate can handle the pattern.
Also, in "GitS", the brain cells aren't replaced, they're augmented by processors, one for each cell, that communicate to the cell and also each other and the outside world. The article describes the ability to crudely duplicate one function and communicate with the rest of the brain, which is one step along the way toward a "cyberbrain", just like being able to purify silicon is one step toward an Android tablet. There are a whole lot more things that have to be done, if they even can be.
But if we end up being able to completely replace a brain cell, would it really matter if the cell is made of silicon or a stem cell? After a stroke or Alzheimers, the original is gone, so are you really "you" after a stroke?
If bits of the brain can be mapped and replaced at the lowest level (eventually) you'd end up with being able to communicate with a brain at the lowest level by not removing the old bits, but leaving the new bits alongside them, monitoring and sending information with them. A Shirow-style "cyberbrain" from "Ghost in the Shell".
Since my Dad and his father had Alzheimers or dementia, and my Mom was prone to strokes, I'm hoping to live long to use (and have enough neurons left to appreciate using) something like this technology.
They may have been using steroidons...
Or maybe MoveOns...
The experiment's results are no big deal, one of the neutrinos just said "follow me, guys, I know a shortcut".
I wish I could have found your company back in '08, when I had one hiring person tell me explicity that I was too old, that they were looking for someone to "grow into the position." So, it is out there, but not universal. And damnably hard to prove, to boot.
It's not the poster who holds that notion, it's the entire Japanese culture. Although to hear a couple of old-timers (even older than me) there talk, some of the respect is less forthcoming from the post-Boomers. The idea probably came about from centuries ago, where if you could figure out how to live long enough to become old, you must have something on the ball (they didn't know about genetics etc. back then) and should be listened to.
However, to quote a certain cantankerous old Starfleet Admiral, "all this fuss just because I haven't died, yet!"
I thought it was "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/Michelle-Obama-French-406/
Of course, since it's a Gibson press release, it's obviously biased and will be easily dismissed by all correct-thinking people.
At least he didn't turn the company over to a fizzy-drink salesman...
After the surgery I only have a semi-colon, you insensitive clod!
Apparently there was a 2.9 sometime later at the same epicenter. I don't think one that small can be detected other than with instruments.
You win an internet for that one.
Bush's Fault.
We haven't had that spirit here since 1969...
Now, if they were My Little Pony sized reactors...
Batteries don't store enough energy per weight and volume.
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