tag > ALife
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In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world
- Improvements in performance or “learning” over time following closed-loop feedback
- Learning observed from both human and primary mouse cortical neurons
- Systems with stimulus but no feedback show no learning
- Dynamic changes observed in neural electrophysiological activity during embodiment
TL;DR: Remarkably, small numbers of explanted human and mouse cells show the ability to learn and respond to artificial sensory feedback enough to play a game of electronic Pong. Something that i highlighted in EP 2 of my docu LIFE on "Neurorobotics"
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Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus
Soon humanity will recognize that nature is full of super intelligent beings - much more powerful than any artificial thing we build. Seeing them requires a shift in perspective, as they operate at radically different timescales & beyond simply notions of bodies & communications.
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Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’ - "Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart"
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US researchers 'hack' fly brains and control them remotely - "It took genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and electrical engineering to achieve this result" - "Magnetic control of select neural circuits"
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Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line - by Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden et.al
Summary: A mainstream study from Sweden showing the Pfizer vaccine penetrates the cells changing RNA to DNA in 6 hours (reverse transcription), causing genomic toxicity ("human genome editing"). Translation: You all got turned into a Big Pharma GMO product that could express the cytotoxic spike protein for the rest of your lives and could also pass it onto your children. Also possibly cancerous. Why were there no tests for biosafety? The biggest stealth crime against humanity ever?
Abstract: Preclinical studies of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, showed reversible hepatic effects in animals that received the BNT162b2 injection. Furthermore, a recent study showed that SARS-CoV-2 RNA can be reverse-transcribed and integrated into the genome of human cells. In this study, we investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7 in vitro. Huh7 cells were exposed to BNT162b2, and quantitative PCR was performed on RNA extracted from the cells. We detected high levels of BNT162b2 in Huh7 cells and changes in gene expression of long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1), which is an endogenous reverse transcriptase. Immunohistochemistry using antibody binding to LINE-1 open reading frame-1 RNA-binding protein (ORFp1) on Huh7 cells treated with BNT162b2 indicated increased nucleus distribution of LINE-1. PCR on genomic DNA of Huh7 cells exposed to BNT162b2 amplified the DNA sequence unique to BNT162b2. Our results indicate a fast up-take of BNT162b2 into human liver cell line Huh7, leading to changes in LINE-1 expression and distribution. We also show that BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as 6 h upon BNT162b2 exposure.
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Talks about Xenobots: From bioelectric embryos to synthetic proto-organisms
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Everyday objects can run artificial intelligence programs - Nontraditional hardware could help neural networks operate faster and more efficiently than computer chips. (paper)
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A Conway 'Game of Life' Conjecture Settled After 29 years
In 1992 John Conway raised a question about the patterns in his famous mathematical Game of Life: "Is there a Godlike still-life, one that can only have existed for all time (apart from things that don't interfere with it)?" Conway closed his note by adding "Well, I'm going out to get a hot dog now..."
Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway's Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe at time T, it must have existed in that same position at time T-1 (and therefore, by induction, at time 0)... The configuration was discovered by experimenting with finite patches of repeating 'agar' and using a SAT solver to check whether any of them possess this property.
Other Game of Life-related news:
- David Raucci discovered the first oscillator of period 38. Remaining unsolved periods are 19, 34, and 41.
- Darren Li has connected Charity Engine to Catagolue, providing approximately 2000 CPU cores of continuous effort and searching slightly more than 10^12 random initial configurations per day.
- Nathaniel Johnston and Dave Greene have published a book on Conway's Game of Life, featuring both the theoretical aspects & engineering that's been accomplished in the half-century since its conception.
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Patents on (Genetically-Modified) Life-Forms are pure madness. By some accounts, over a billion people now carry patented bits in them (via so called "vaccines"). Seed-control is a particularly insidious practice.
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Bring in the clones: Instagrammers are genetically replicating their pets
Courtney Udvar-Hazy and her cloned dog, Phoenix Together, these furry duplicates are normalizing the world of animal cloning -- and they could be ushering in an era of petfluencer immortality. "Someone could clone their pet and replace the original. The world doesn't have to know. They may never know," says Melain Rodriguez, client service manager at ViaGen, which is behind the cloning of all the animals mentioned in this article. "Especially if it's one that looks exactly the same and they can just continue with that pet." (Rodriguez notes that the cloned pets aren't "reincarnations" and will have different personalities than their predecessors.) [...] The process, however, is complicated and expensive. The price tag for cloning a pet ranges anywhere from $35,000 to $50,000, depending on the animal. "It's very similar to IVF," explains Rodriguez.
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Lake Vostok is one of the largest subglacial lakes in the world
- Antarctica's hidden Lake Vostok found to teem with life
- He Found ‘Islands of Fertility’ Beneath Antarctica’s Ice
- ‘Unclassified’ Life Found in Antarctic Lake – Researcher
- Russian scientist defends Lake Vostok life claims
- Bacteria May Thrive in Antarctic Lake
- Holds Implications for Search for Life in the Solar System
- The Very Strange Case Of The NSA And Lake Vostok In Antarctica
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Redesigning Longevity - Talk by Craig Venter at WGS 2018
Related: Craig Venter was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein - As is most of Craig's social network
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery - 1952 Miller-Urey experiment showed organic molecules forming from inorganic precursors.
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One of the prominent writers in the field of "Biopunk" is Paul Di Filippo, though he called his collection of such stories ribofunk, a blend of "ribosome" and "funk". In RIBOFUNK: The Manifesto, Di Filippo wrote:
Why Ribo? Cybernetics was a dead science when cyberpunk SF was born, a cul-de-sac without living practitioners. Furthermore, the "cyber" prefix has been irreparably debased by overuse, in vehicles ranging from comic books to bad movies. The tag now stands for nothing in the public mind but computer hacking and fanciful cyborgs such as Robocop. And Weiner's actual texts do not provide enough fruitful metaphors for constructing a systematic worldview.
Why Funk? Punk was a dead music when cyberpunk SF was born, a cul-de-sac albeit with living practitioners who just hadn't gotten the message yet. The music's nihilistic, chiliastic worldview had already culminated in its only possible end: self-extinction.
What is Ribofunk then? Ribofunk is speculative fiction which acknowledges, is informed by and illustrates the tenet that the next revolution—the only one that really matters—will be in the field of biology. To paraphrase Pope, ribofunk holds that: "The proper study of mankind is life." Forget physics and chemistry; they are only tools to probe living matter. Computers? Merely simulators and modelers for life. The cell is King![5]
