1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Sun Apr 19 22:32:08 2015 -0700
     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Tue Jun 02 20:01:35 2015 -0700
     1.3 @@ -19,6 +19,70 @@
     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 +- mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
     1.8 +
     1.9 +- Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
    1.10 +     Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with
    1.11 +     subtitles. They should have had a part where Jesus does the
    1.12 +     sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking
    1.13 +     in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically
    1.14 +     accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a powerful
    1.15 +     example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were setting up
    1.16 +     for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
    1.17 +
    1.18 +- scientist online paper reviews ::
    1.19 +
    1.20 +- binary feedback ::
    1.21 +
    1.22 +- xenobiotic methalation rewriting ::
    1.23 +
    1.24 +- trolley cryonics :: change the cryonics protocol around so that the
    1.25 +     death occurs in a non-primary action loop.
    1.26 +
    1.27 +- binary metric :: you make up new unit names for "2 centimeters", "4
    1.28 +     centimeters", "16 centimeters", etc. Then no one will be happy!
    1.29 +     BUT, it helps solve metric's problem of intermediate units. (a
    1.30 +     centimeter is too small, a meter is too large!)
    1.31 +
    1.32 +- physical pgp signatures :: someone should put together the
    1.33 +     technologies so that you can digitally sign actual pieces of
    1.34 +     paper -- some combination of signing a photograph of the
    1.35 +     contract using pgp, printing a barcode or OR code on the page
    1.36 +     which links to a website with the signed image, and a web of
    1.37 +     trust model so that people can authenticate as themselves. All
    1.38 +     this totally exists already, it's just not convienent. 
    1.39 +
    1.40 +- meta eye :: you wire in a third optical input to the human brain,
    1.41 +     but it doesn't tranduce light form the real world, bus instead is
    1.42 +     connected to the "internet of things" and shows you metadata
    1.43 +     about things you are looking at // serves as an interface to your
    1.44 +     own mind and body. Then eventually simply real things without
    1.45 +     metadata seem flat and fake compared to the objects in cities and
    1.46 +     other annotated areas. This third eye doesn't occupy any of your
    1.47 +     normal visual field but actually EXPANDS your visual field.
    1.48 +
    1.49 +- do it once -- upload ::
    1.50 +
    1.51 +- a simple merge procedure for uploads ::
    1.52 +
    1.53 +- limits of monogamy ::
    1.54 +
    1.55 +- dream rewinding :: how to record a complete dream without disturbing
    1.56 +     it or modifying your brain? you need to be an upload: split
    1.57 +     yourself, and one of you stays awake whike the other sleeps. then
    1.58 +     you detect a dream in progress by monotoring rapid eye movememt
    1.59 +     in your sleeping self, and you wake yourself up every few minutes
    1.60 +     and tell yoursef about the dream. Then sleeping-your restarts the
    1.61 +     dream, continuation passing style, forgetting everything that was
    1.62 +     just said, and you repeat this process until the dream is
    1.63 +     over. Then awake-you and sleeping-you merge each other by taking
    1.64 +     sleeping-you and replaying the memories of awake-you, and you
    1.65 +     write a final report on the dream using the "saccade" reports to
    1.66 +     jog your memory. 
    1.67 +
    1.68 +- denser than osmium :: do the "misicibility" thing with an osmium
    1.69 +     alloy to get something even more dense.
    1.70 +
    1.71  - AI hypnosis :: hypnosis might be good for studying AI, becuse it
    1.72       might probide a "debugger" for ananlyzing the human mind. I
    1.73       briefly tried this while at MIT, but it needs MUCH more work to
    1.74 @@ -70,15 +134,16 @@
    1.75       brain, simply because you CAN perfuse viscous rubber when doing
    1.76       vascular casts.
    1.77  
    1.78 -- perfusion pausing :: One problem with doing perfusion is that if you
    1.79 -     STOP the perfusion, you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as
    1.80 -     your perfusate leaks out. You can prevent this by submerging the
    1.81 -     organ/head/rat whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use
    1.82 -     something inert like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would
    1.83 -     have to slowly decrease the flow rate while simultaneously
    1.84 -     lowering the perfusing object into the fluid. To start again,
    1.85 -     reverse the process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while
    1.86 -     removing the organ from the fluid.
    1.87 +- perfusion pausing :: (Turns out this won't actually work!) One
    1.88 +     problem with doing perfusion is that if you STOP the perfusion,
    1.89 +     you rapidly loose pressure in the organ as your perfusate leaks
    1.90 +     out. You can prevent this by submerging the organ/head/rat
    1.91 +     whatever in FLUID at the appropriate level. Use something inert
    1.92 +     like flurocarbon to avoid problems. You would have to slowly
    1.93 +     decrease the flow rate while simultaneously lowering the
    1.94 +     perfusing object into the fluid. To start again, reverse the
    1.95 +     process -- reengage the peristaltic pump slowly while removing
    1.96 +     the organ from the fluid.
    1.97  
    1.98  - evoultionary textbook mimiricy :: as surgery becomes more common,
    1.99       there develops a distinct selective pressure for individuals