Post by Aaron M. Lambert, Ph.D on Oct 6, 2020 13:20:19 GMT -5
"As a Harvard Neuroscientist, the wonders and achievements of the human mind are built upon abstractions of the sensory-motor interface, of which language has been the most foundational. I'll elaborate on that later but, first, let's take a trip back in evolutionary history. Much of the evolutionarily older parts of our brain - aside from dealing with homeostatic control of internal states (e.g. heart rate, respiration, satiety, digestion, wake-sleep, hormonal flux) - are explicitly wired to receive real-time sensory inputs and transform them into adaptive motor outputs. Even invertebrates, such as worms and insects, have nervous systems that exquisitely fulfill these critical tasks. For vertebrates like us, our spinal cord, hindbrain, and midbrain are largely dedicated to these real-time sensorimotor transformations, in addition to autonomically regulating our internal states. This comprises much of the brains and functionalities of simpler vertebrates, such as fish and reptiles. The advent of mammals brought about an expansion of subcortex conferring more complex emotionality in the service of caregiving, and a cerebral cortex for more flexible learning & strategizing for solving problems. Our cats and dogs, of course, are endowed with these capacities. But even they lack the formidable human capacity to abstract and transcend the sensorimotor interface. Language is our most foundational abstraction of the sensorimotor landscape. We look at an object and associate it with an arbitrary label - a word - and construct arbitrary vocalizations and other abstract motor outputs (writing symbols and letters) in relation to the sensory stimulus (the physical object). In so doing, we are able to take these associations - words with objects - and build more and more associations upon them to make sense of the world. We first dichotomize the world of word-objects into big/small, light/dark, fast/slow, and good/bad. From there, we can categorize the constellation of word-objects into convenient bins for comparisons and interactions. Beyond space, we can perform the same abstraction with time by categorizing it, binning it, and even discretizing it into infinitesimal points in the service of calculus and elaborately precise computations. In so doing, we can make accurate predictions of the future for many purposes. Speaking of the future, and also the past, our ability to think outside of our current physical space and time is another key ingredient to our dominance over the rest of the animal kingdom. But all these human-specific wonders of our minds often go awry and undermine our optimal functionality. Yes, our cerebral endowments of hindsight and foresight expand our cognitive landscapes beyond the linear sensory-motor interface known as the present. But this often makes the present elusive, yet all the more vital to embrace. Otherwise, we're just living in the memories of our future selves. Consider getting present to the moment more often, which is still possible even if you need to reflect on the past or plan for the future. Do those activities in the present as well. It's where all your power lies. Vids coming soon."
Profusa: profusa.com/ Profusa is pioneering tissue-integrating biosensors for continuous monitoring of body chemistries.
About Us: Welcome to Profusa, Inc. We are leading the development of a new generation of biointegrated sensors that empowers the individual with the ability to monitor their unique body chemistry in unprecedented ways to transform the management of personal health and disease. Our technology enables the development of bioengineered sensors that become one with the body to detect and continuously transmit actionable, medical-grade data for personal and medical use.
Breaking the Biocompatibility Barrier Profusa’s unique bioengineering approach overcomes the largest hurdle in long-term use of biosensors in the body: the foreign body response. Approximately 5 mm long and 500 microns in diameter, each tiny biosensor is a soft, flexible fiber designed to be biologically compatible with the body’s tissues for continuous monitoring, while overcoming the effects of local inflammation or rejection. (Note: The finger is shown for size comparison.)
Tissue-integrating Scaffold Providing medical-grade data, the biosensor is made of a porous “smart gel” that mimics the 3D microenvironment of cells. The smart gel is linked to a light-emitting molecule that emits a fluorescent signal in the presence of one or more body chemicals such as oxygen, glucose, lactate, or other biomarker.
Optical Reader Adhered to the skin’s surface or held by hand, a separate optical reader is used to read the fluorescent signal from the embedded biosensor. The reader sends excitation light through the skin to the biosensor, which then emits fluorescent light proportional to the amount of biochemical measured.
"The revolutionary breakthrough came to a Canadian scientist named Derek Rossi in 2010 purely by accident. The now-retired Harvard professor claimed in an interview with the National Post that he found a way to “reprogram” the molecules that carry the genetic instructions for cell development in the human body, not to mention all biological lifeforms.
These molecules are called ‘messenger ribonucleic acid’ or mRNA and the newfound ability to rewrite those instructions to produce any kind of cell within a biological organism has radically changed the course of Western medicine and science, even if no one has really noticed yet. As Rossi, himself, puts it: “The real important discovery here was you could now use mRNA, and if you got it into the cells, then you could get the mRNA to express any protein in the cells, and this was the big thing.
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Once firmly implanted inside the body, human cells are at the mercy of any mRNA program delivered via this substrate, unleashing a nightmare of possibilities. It is, perhaps, the first true step towards full-on transhumanism; a “philosophy” that is in vogue with many powerful and influential people, such as Google’s Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt and whose proponents see the fusion of technology and biology as an inevitable consequence of human progress.
The private company created to market this technology, that allows for biological processes to be controlled remotely and opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses and, ultimately, our entire existence, is called Profusa Inc and its operations are funded with millions from NIH and DARPA. In March, the company was quietly inserted into the crowded COVID-19 bazaar in March 2020, when it announced an injectable biochip for the detection of viral respiratory diseases, including COVID-19."
"TrueBlue Observer Post author June 25, 2020, 8:25 am Hi again Mike. Nobody can understand our situation here without knowing the history. For 25 years, any eyewitnesses to crimes now being done by the Chinese against west coast indians ended up either dead or silenced. I am literally the only survivor of those times. Many of our sources and original documentation have been wiped out or hacked, like our previous itccs.org site. The original news agency source for the info on Chinese death squads that is now obliterated was set up by a Terrace, BC independent journalist named Merv Richie (you can see my interviews with him on our www.bbsradio.com/herewestand archive list of shows). Merv is on the run now after being arrested and nearly killed by the rcmp.
So for people to question my sources is as much a reflection of their ignorance as the fact that we are in a war zone here. It’s only because of my persistence that any of this shit is known at all. Much of it is online at www.murderbydecree.com , but none of my critics take the time to go through that voluminous evidence. It’s easier and safer to throw mud and doubt at me. I only wish my critics would spend equal energy on going after the killers. But of course that would be dangerous.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution[2] owned by central banks that "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks".[3] The BIS carries out its work through its meetings, programmes and through the Basel Process – hosting international groups pursuing global financial stability and facilitating their interaction. It also provides banking services, but only to central banks and other international organizations. It is based in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
Post by Middle School Strip Tease on Oct 11, 2020 13:04:27 GMT -5
"Students dance striptease in the middle school sports meet! The CCP is a rogue. What can be good under the education of the Chinese Communist Party? Education in this country is really over. "Unscrupulously for a certain purpose." This is the highest instruction. Under this highest directive, there will be unscrupulous patterns of 1.4 billion to 1.4 billion powers. Vow not to give up until the goal is reached. You can do anything for the purpose."
Solarianism, the practice of Solarians, was founded on 17/12/05 by two mysterious strangers from Pennsylvannia. It bases it's worship around the solar cyle of the sun, mostly it's rising and setting. The sun is the source of life to our humble planet and in this religion it acts as the god, or functioning idol of worship. Solarians like to sit on hills and witness the rising of the sun, in which they thank it for it's bounty. And the setting of the sun, in which they bid farewell to the god for the nighttime.
Functions of Worship
Sunrise- Every Saturday they wake at approx. 30 minutes before sunrise. They then dress according to the weather, but do not bathe, brush their teeth or do any other time of morning routine. After going to a high spot to sit, such as a roof or hilltop they in meditation wait for the sacred rise. As the sun is rising they hum to themseleves a single note of harmony until it has completely emerged from the horizon. At that point they stare at the newly risen sun and form a wish from their hearts.
Sunset- Every Saturday evening, 30 minutes before sun set, Solarians go to the same hill or rooftop they did in the morning. Then they sit and meditate quietly until the sun begins to disappear, at which point they being to hum in harmony. Once the sun is completly gone behind the horizon Solarians make yet another wish that complements the once they wished in the morning. Then they say a small ritual of thanks and the ceremony ends.
You can choose which ceromony to attend, as it is not required to go to both. Although often Solarians go to both ceremonies anyway.
Special worships include solar and lunar eclispes of the sun. On these days solarians fast from food and remain in a meditative state until the sunset, in which then they feast.
How to Join
After celebrating your first ritual and you agree to accept the solar energy into your heart you are a true Solarian.
Repentance
If you miss a worship day or do something of grave discomfort to the sun, it would be within your knowledge to repent. To repent you must go to both worshipping sessions on a Saturday and make both your wishes into wishes of forgiveness.
Things About Solarians
Solarians are usually very liberal and don't believe in an embodied god like Christains. Instead they believe in the power of our sun and the right to be free from bounds within our world. A large amount of Solarians are vegetarian or vegan, although this is not essential. Look at that Solarian, practicing Solarianism, waking 30 minutes before sunrise and such!
"I still remember the first time seeing [orangutans] in a zoo as a child. It genuinely shocked and surprised and scared me in a most unsettling way like no other animals there. I still feel it now seeing these pics, it’s like, I get a weird feeling they’re beyond us in certain ways. For example, you are stressed at work in the city so plan to go into the woods for peace of mind and meditation. While you’re meditating, you observe that in ordinary life you are all distracted and stressed and out of harmony with existence.meditating helps you feel tuned into the rhythms of the forest and the pulse of life etc, but then think of one of these animals, living naturally in the wild, with no human written word culture or jobs, but what if they have a similar spiritual depth or greater? And they see what is happening to their world and can only sigh."
"The sensation I got as a kid seeing the full grown massive seeming orangutan was one of uncanny realization that this being has a mind and consciousness equal to mine, to me. It was instant understanding, I, not sure how to say it. I knew it had a depth like or greater than humans, whereas with other zoo animals, while I clearly knew they were conscious beings interested in their own social lives and survival, they did not strike me as having the depth to their inner worlds. For all we know, orangutans close their eyes and dream of Buddhas."
Carcinisation (or carcinization) is an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".[1]
Carcinisation is believed to have occurred independently in at least five groups of decapod crustaceans,[2] most notably king crabs,[3][4] which most scientists believe evolved from hermit crab ancestors. The other examples are the family Porcellanidae or porcelain crabs (which are closely related to squat lobsters),[5] the hairy stone crab Lomis hirta,[6] the coconut crab Birgus latro, and true crabs (Brachyura).[7] A prehistoric example is the extinct crustacean order Cyclida, which evolved their crab-like morphology before the existence of true crabs.[8]
(One hundred years of carcinization – the evolution of the crab-like habitus in Anomura (Arthropoda: Crustacea)) academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/121/1/200/3089703 -"In this paper we summarize the results of our recent studies into the evolution of the crab-like morphotype (i.e. carcinization) and into possible structural dependences (i.e. coherences) between the external morphology of a crab-like habitus and inner organs."
(Extracted Snippets) "convergent evolution is not uncommon especially when species have similar selecting pressures in their environments"
"now that I look at the false crabs it makes sense: the ideal body is at least 50% weapons" //gegs!?
"Everyone wants to be crabs because they are so good. They've got a tough shell for defense, claws for fighting and eating, a squat shape to handle pressure and stress, and antennae to sense the world. They can eat whatever and live wherever. If you choose to go crab, then you choose the winning team."
"Some cosmic horror for you: given the consistent nature of fluid dynamics in water at temperatures where carbon-based life can survive, and the sheer probability of life to be rife in the universe, there are probably several intelligent species of crab-like aliens out there." "so basically what this means is that it's highly likely crab shaped aliens exist. nice"
Post by DC/EP, FEB 2020 on Oct 15, 2020 12:01:47 GMT -5
(The flipside of China’s central bank digital currency) www.aspi.org.au/report/flipside-chinas-central-bank-digital-currency "DC/EP’s rollout is likely to have notable ramifications for governments, investors and companies, including China’s own tech champions. More analysis is needed before prescriptive policy solutions can be developed for the political and financial oversight challenges DC/EP could create. At the same time, it’s important to act in anticipation of key shifts in global financial regulation and advances in financial technology, so that governments don’t end up trying to reverse course when it’s too late to deal with the systemic risks DC/EP could create."
And thus, too, we find an explanation of the fate which befalls the adventurous wanderers; for we have already seen that no lake deters them, and that they frequently cross the fjords, or arms of the sea, in safety. No doubt, therefore, they commit themselves to the Atlantic in the belief that it is as passable as those lakes and fjords which they have already successfully dared, and that beyond its waves lies a land which they are never destined to reach.
The submerged continent of Lemuria, in what is now the Indian Ocean, is considered to afford an explanation of many difficulties in the distribution of organic life, and I think the existence of a Miocene Atlantis will be found to have a strong elucidative bearing on subjects of greater interest than the migration of the lemming. At all events, if it can be shown that land existed in former ages where the North Atlantic now rolls, not only is a motive found for these apparently suicidal migrations, but also a strong collateral proof that what we call instincts are but the blind and sometimes even prejudicial inheritance of previously-acquired experience.
"In this clinical trial, the treatment is called CTX001. It uses CRISPR cas9 technology to edit a gene called BCL11A. Think of it as if you have a book with hundreds of pages and thousands of words. You’re trying to find that one word and fix it or change it, said Frangoul. While a baby is still in the womb, it makes a type of blood called fetal hemoglobin, which can carry oxygen very effectively to help the fetus develop normally, he explained. About 3 or 4 months after the baby is born, a gene called BCL11A turns on. That gene tells the cells to stop making fetal hemoglobin and start making adult hemoglobin, he noted. What we are doing in this clinical trial is directing the CRISPR cas9 to go and turn that BCL11A gene off,” he added. “When you make high amounts of fetal hemoglobin, it will prevent the patient’s red blood cells from sickling."
Before we get too deep into this, let's just look at the lemur's name.
Zoboomafoo would seem to break down into a few different linguistic units based on etymology and phonemes (these are associations loosely based in theory, the reader should feel free to speculate and add in the comments section...):
1: zo - boo - ma - foo
- a: zo = Zoe, the Greek name that means 'life.' - b: boo = a cry - c: ma = mother, or an important Chinese tone that refers to mother, horse, hemp, or scold - d: foo = fool
This is inadequate, however. Here is a better association:
2: zo - (bo[o)ma] - foo
- a: zo = Zoe, the Greek name that means 'life.' - b: bo/o = a sound that a ghost makes - c: o/ma = Greek suffix (as seen in Soma, carcinoma, etc.), i.e. the body and its productions - d: foo = foe, or 'blood feud'
This second associative analysis is much more pertinent to the idea of Lemur which, as the CCRU points out, etymologically breaks down into Ghost or Spirit.
So, 2.a and 2.b are dialectical - Life and death, or, more accurately, unlife. 2.b, unlife, as derived from 2.a, is now consistent and dialectical with 2.c, for, spirit is, as Deleuze and Guattari point out, an incorporeal aspect of a corporeality; spirit is not a mere abstraction, but an articulation of material, of soma. Finally, 2.d, which consists of blood, the vital material of the soma, and feud, which is the romantic conflict between the body and the mind, material and spirit, etc., conceptualized by the poets and philosophers throughout the ages. In other words, Zoboomafoo refers to a bloody struggle of a spirit between life and death, or between modes of becoming or planes of existence, or War - Lemurian Time War.
It is my belief that the name was chosen for the Lemur, on a human register, randomly based on human patterns of information processing, linguistic association, aesthetics, and material limits of the larynx, mouth, etc. 'Zzee' as a sound was chosen as it was silly, goofy, unique, least used letter, etc. and would attract a child's interest both educationally and casually. Zzee morphed into Zooo through association with Zoology, or Zoo, that is, animals. A linguistic unit that rhymes with Zoo was then sought and boo was found. Z and B are phonetically and materially close (plosives, palette position), and, additionally, B is the second letter of the alphabet, an unintentional juxtaposition with Z, the last letter. Ma or Oma was then utilized - well, I am not sure - but I can guess because it is lyrical and poetical, or, in other words, fit the cadence. Za - boo - ma (ma raises the intonation back up from the valley of boo) - (a rhyme, again). Foo was then, again, chosen due to its rhyme. So, the Kratt brother's created a character that appeals to the sentiments of children - rhymes, lyrical shifts in intonation, etc. However, they unintentionally summoned - or made a fiction into reality - an associative chain covering Ghosts, the body, and blood, and life (which, in addition to invoking themes of war, seems to invoke Christian occultist themes, the body and blood of Christ, the holy spirit incarnate, who gave his life to save us).
Post by Purple Earth on Oct 19, 2020 2:04:45 GMT -5
(Purple Earth Hypothesis) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis The Purple Earth hypothesis is an astrobiological hypothesis that photosynthetic life forms of early Earth were retinal-based rather than chlorophyll-based, making Earth appear purple rather than green.[1][2] An example of retinal-based organisms that exist today are the photosynthetic microbes collectively called Haloarchaea.[3] Many Haloarchaea contain the retinal protein, bacteriorhodopsin, in their purple membrane which carries out light-driven proton pumping, generating a proton-motive gradient across the cell membrane and driving ATP synthesis. The haloarchaeal purple membrane constitutes one of the simplest known bioenergetic systems for harvesting light energy.
(Was Life on the Early Earth Purple?) astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/was-life-on-the-early-earth-purple/ Early life-forms on Earth may have been able to generate metabolic energy from sunlight using a purple-pigmented molecule called retinal that possibly predates the evolution of chlorophyll and photosynthesis. If retinal has evolved on other worlds, it could create a a distinctive biosignature as it absorbs green light in the same way that vegetation on Earth absorbs red and blue light.
Earth’s atmosphere has not always contained significant amounts of oxygen. For the first two billion years of our planet’s history, the atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide and methane, but around 2.4 billion years ago something changed: the Great Oxygenation Event that saw the abundance of free oxygen in our atmosphere dramatically rise. The cause of this is thought to be cyanobacteria, which are able to perform photosynthesis – the transformation of sunlight and carbon dioxide into metabolic energy to produce sugars that fuel life’s processes, and oxygen as a ‘waste’ product – using a green pigment called chlorophyll.