Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 152:111bd9aa499a
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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:01:35 -0700 |
parents | 0f8cb1752964 |
children | 6e0cc778102e |
files | org/ideas.org |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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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