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Scientists ‘May Have Crossed Ethical Line’ in Growing Human Brains: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains #NeuroScience #Ethics #Biology #BCI
Neuroscientists may have crossed an “ethical rubicon” by growing lumps of human brain in the lab, and in some cases transplanting the tissue into animals, researchers warn. The creation of mini-brains or brain “organoids” has become one of the hottest fields in modern neuroscience. The blobs of tissue are made from stem cells and, while they are only the size of a pea, some have developed spontaneous brain waves, similar to those seen in premature babies. Many scientists believe that organoids have the potential to transform medicine by allowing them to probe the living brain like never before. But the work is controversial because it is unclear where it may cross the line into human experimentation. On Monday, researchers will tell the world’s largest annual meeting of neuroscientists that some scientists working on organoids are “perilously close” to crossing the ethical line, while others may already have done so by creating sentient lumps of brain in the lab. “If there’s even a possibility of the organoid being sentient, we could be crossing that line,” said Elan Ohayon, the director of the Green Neuroscience Laboratory in San Diego, California. “We don’t want people doing research where there is potential for something to suffer.”
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Brain Art - Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030143220 #BCI #Art #NeuroScience
"The first book that surveys how brain activity can be monitored and manipulated for artistic purposes, with contributions by interactive media artists, brain-computer interface researchers, and neuroscientists"
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If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers/
To summarize these results:
- The average players are working just as many hours as the elite players (around 50 hours a week spent on music),
- but they’re not dedicating these hours to the right type of work (spending almost 3 times less hours than the elites on crucial deliberate practice),
- and furthermore, they spread this work haphazardly throughout the day. So even though they’re not doing more work than the elite players, they end up sleeping less and feeling more stressed. Not to mention that they remain worse at the violin.
What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/06/the-grandmaster-in-the-corner-office-what-the-study-of-chess-experts-teaches-us-about-building-a-remarkable-life/
Deliberate Practice:
- https://jamesclear.com/deliberate-practice-theory
- https://jamesclear.com/beginners-guide-deliberate-practice
- http://jarche.com/2016/07/from-knowledge-worker-to-master-artisan/
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Solving the “Hard Problem”: Consciousness as an Intrinsic Property of Magnetic Fields: https://sacredneurology.com/2019/11/12/consciousness-is-an-intrinsic-property-of-magnetic-fields/ Image: Magnetotactic Bacteria
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Natural image reconstruction from brain waves: a novel visual BCI system with native feedback: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full #BCI #ML #NeuroScience
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Machine-Learning Assisted Directed Evolution - talk by Viviana Gradinaru
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Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain: https://www.quantamagazine.org/perceptions-of-musical-octaves-are-learned-not-wired-in-the-brain-20191030/
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Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing: https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/07/urban-tree-canopy-green-space-wellbeing-research/595060/ #Regenerative #NeuroScience
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"Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface—Reality Check" - by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D: https://rdouglasfields.com/2019/07/26/elon-musks-brain-computer-interface-reality-check/ #NeuroScience #BCI #Military
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"US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/23/us-diplomats-brains-shrunk-sonic-attacks-cuban-embassy-scientific/ #SE #NeuroScience
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"How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds":
http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game-using-only-your-mind/
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Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children: https://www.france24.com/en/20190627-italy-arrests-18-allegedly-brainwashing-selling-children #Politics #Military #NeuroScience
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Hearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your Life: https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hearables-will-monitor-your-brain-and-body-to-augment-your-life #Augmentation #ML #Politics #NeuroScience
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"the findings constitute the first time that a mechanism transmitting neuronal responses across generations has been identified." https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/Israeli-study-Nervous-system-can-transmit-messages-to-future-generations-591795 I'm very sceptical of these findings. Culture is it. Plus, this will be militarised in 10 seconds.
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Miguel Nicolelis - The Future of Human Augmentation:
Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it (2015)
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Brain-controlled, non-invasive muscle stimulation allows chronic paraplegics to walk:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-brain-controlled-non-invasive-muscle-chronic-paraplegics.html
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Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology:
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Scientists Project Holograms Into The Brain To Create Experiences:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/04/30/scientists-project-holograms-into-the-brain-to-create-experiences/Editing brain activity with holography: https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/04/30/editing-brain-activity-with-holography/
Activating brain cells with holography:
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Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces:
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2019-05-20 #BCI #Military #NeuroScienceTeams selected for DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program will pursue a mix of approaches to developing wearable interfaces for communicating with the brain
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Responsibility and Sustainability in Brain Science, Technology, and Neuroethics in China—a Culture-Oriented Perspective: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30050-9
