Developing this argument, but to be consistent within the current model we’d need to have two completely different types of engrams which fed both systems. The immune/vascular side would need to have very short encodings to support increased production rates and these “microengrams” are decodable by nervous system clusters throughout the body. So the brain …
Do we have two completely different types of engrams? Read More »
Going through some research on vibration/resonance therapies and the effect sizes on them are kind of eye popping (ahoooooga). I’m wondering what the bill of materials on a chair designed for daily use that also provided this type of stimulation. Imagine your office chair helping instead of hurting you in prolonged use. It seems like …
Treatment idea – A chair with a speaker optimized for between .5 – 5Hz signals. Read More »
Vascular system has a “memory” system that runs parallel with the nervous system. The vascular system uses a system similar to how b cells create antibodies to create molecular memory/instructions which can then be utilized by organs in a semi-independent, asynchronous manner. Might be that the primary function of the immune system isn’t to ward …
I’ve been chasing a persistent environmental effect similar to lead which started spiking rates of everything in western countries starting in the late 90’s in “western” countries. I’d been following plastic micro-particulates at small enough size could screw with how proteins are encoded by blocking transcription sites as a possible idea but the data is …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519301922623 I know this is an old one, but the chain is REALLY fascinating especially a few of the recent cites. With regard to this one particularly, their proposed definition of life caught my eye: In this formulation, life (a living individual) is defined as a network of inferior negative feedbacks (regulatory mechanisms) subordinated to …
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Got caught up in a conversation that I normally avoid like the plague, whether or not it’s possible to replicate human “consciousness” in human created systems (that aren’t biological in origin). An interesting though arose, since mechanics necessary to instantiate system level control are such a tiny percentage of total nervous system size, instead of …
One of the fundamental problems in studying memory is that it doesn’t exist at all how we imagine it. Brains store data in a way which is completely incoherent with our experience. Rather than storing the letter “A” for example, it stores a metaphorical representation of “A” which is reconstructed into the conscious experience. I …
Just realized I had a few posts intended for a different project, I apologize for those. Astrocytes as singular self-aware units which independently instantiate behavior just feels like an amazing bit of coherence for a lot of weird pathology. It makes me think of the randomness in organ rejection in transplant patients, why is it …
I’ve been really interested in techniques which reverse the specialization of cells, especially work around inducing pluripotency in existing cells. Outside of mature red blood cells, nearly every cell in the body has all of the instructions necessary to devolve into a pluripotent state, and most research I’ve read indicates that those pluripotent cells will …
