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🚀 TERRAFORMING MARS OR… (PERHAPS) MARSIFYING HUMANS 🚀 Many #tabletopgaming enthusiasts 🎲 list Terraforming Mars as their all-time favorite board game. Terraforming Mars is a popular strategy board game released in 2016 and designed by Jacob Fryxelius that depicts corporations competing to transform #Mars into a habitable world for #humanity by raising the temperature, creating a breathable atmosphere, and establishing human infrastructure. The game won the Best Expert Game in Spiel des Jahres and it blends several mechanics to create a rich gameplay experience like resource management, engine building, card drafting, and variable player powers, among others. BUT, what if… Instead of colonizing Mars by Terraforming it (real sorry about this, Jacob), we were to Marsify humanity, by #ADN engineering and technifying humanity like Elon Musk´s pretends with his company Neuralink? WHAT WOULD MARSIFYING PEOPLE LOOK LIKE? Imagine a future where individuals like your genetically engineered great-great-great grandson, let's call him John Smith VII, embody: 1️⃣ Increased bone density to combat the effects of low gravity. 💪 2️⃣ Enhanced muscle tone to counteract atrophy in Martian conditions. 🏋️♂️ 3️⃣ Improved immune response against potential pathogens. 🦠 4️⃣ Tinted skin for added radiation protection. 🌞 5️⃣ Night vision enhancements for the dim Martian environment. 🌌 Further advancements might entail: ✅ Strength and mobility boosts via exoskeletons or biomechanical implants. 🤖 ✅ Internal oxygen processing for direct respiration from Martian atmosphere. 💨 ✅ Symbiotic relationships with engineered organisms for digestive support and more. 🦠👥 Mars is not so far off in the distant future of humanity, so our great-great-great-grandsons might not resemble us at all, except for that twinkle in their eyes. ✨ YES! like the one I would be able to see right now on your face! 😄 #success #tabletopgames #strategy #colonizingmars #elonmusk #neuralink #adn #futureofhumanity #jacobFryxelius #terraformingmars

🌍 🔬 On this #WorldMicrobiomeDay, we celebrate not just the complex world of microbes within us, but also the passionate researchers who journey into this frontier. So, here's to the billions of microbes and the tireless scientists dedicated to decoding their secrets! #ScienceHeroes #CopanDiagnostics 🦠🔬🧫

3 Big Lies you Might Believe about Cryonics: 1️⃣ Cryonics is impossible Although it's not currently possible to revive someone from cryopreservation, there's no basic biological reason that makes it permanently impossible. Many advancements, like space travel and heart transplants, were once considered impossible throughout most of human history. However, these once unthinkable achievements have now become common. It's important to understand that there's no guarantee that patients in cryopreservation can be revived. However, stating that it's impossible is not accurate. 2️⃣ Cryonics is a SCAM Some individuals may view Cryonics as a dubious endeavor due to its speculative nature. When individuals opt for Cryopreservation, they face uncertainty regarding the feasibility of future revival. It is the duty of Cryonics Providers, including ours, to explicitly convey that Cryopreservation merely offers a POSSIBILITY for future life extension. As long as individuals are making an informed decision to enroll, there is no fraudulent activity taking place. Given the protracted nature of a venture like Cryonics, establishing TRUST is paramount. At Tomorrow Bio, we are committed to fostering transparency and accessibility. 3️⃣ Cryonics will revive you in useless body The primary objective of Cryonics is not simply to awaken individuals in the future but to grant them a HEALTHY and extended life. Reviving someone only for them to succumb to old age shortly thereafter would defeat the purpose. Encouragingly, contemporary researchers are actively exploring longevity and anti-aging technologies. Although the imminent availability of such technologies is uncertain, it is highly probable that addressing aging is a more manageable challenge than reviving someone from Cryopreservation. In all likelihood, by the time revival becomes plausible, anti-aging practices would likely be commonplace. If, for any reason, anti-aging advancements are not sufficiently developed when revival becomes feasible, there is flexibility to wait. Importantly, Cryopreserved individuals face no time constraints, allowing them to await the emergence of appropriate technologies 🙂

Has the era of voluntary cyborgs begun? Elon Musk's Neuralink has been successfully implanted into a HUMAN brain. Here is what you need to know: 🤯 Neuralink has successfully implanted a wireless brain chip in a human, showcasing promising brain activity and a positive recovery post-procedure. 🤯 Aiming to bridge human brains with computers, Neuralink is at the forefront of tackling complex neurological conditions, marking a significant milestone in medical device development. 🤯 While this achievement places Neuralink in a select group of companies pioneering in brain chip implants, the true measure of success lies in long-term evaluations. Other entities, like EPFL in Switzerland, have also made notable advances in this field. 🤯 With past criticisms over animal testing, Neuralink's journey to human trials underscores the importance of ethical considerations in medical innovations. 🤯 Musk introduced "Telepathy" as Neuralink's first product, aiming to enable control of digital devices through thought alone. It might sound crazy to control your phone via a brain implant, but knowing how people are, there will be enthusiasts eager to volunteer for cybernetic enhancements - becoming voluntary cyborgs. Vincent T. Irmler and Tarek Madany Mamlouk are discussing those cyborgs on Yay Space - The TechReview Podcast: https://lnkd.in/ewXscUCs #Neuralink #ElonMusk #BrainComputerInterface #Neuroscience #TechnologyInnovation #MedicalDevices

Most of the octopus nervous system (500 million neurons!) exists within its eight arms. Nervous systems, after all, evolve in tandem with bodies, and the octopus body has evolved to be unusually complex. What’s more, nervous systems take a lot of energy to run and can evolve to be large only when the benefits outweigh the costs. Pr Benny Hochner a neurobiologist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has investigated how octopus brains represent and plan for almost limitless freedom of movement. Unlike the brains of skeletal animals such as humans, Hochner found, the octopus brain does not contain specific parts that deal with sensory and motor information from individual body parts. Being boneless, an octopus can extend any arm in any direction at any point; it’s not limited to moving at shoulder, elbow, or wrist. This gives the octopus an enormous range of possible movements; also, each arm can be doing something different. An octopus on the hunt can thus be an impressive sight. At the same time, the animal has evolved the capacity to receive and process a huge amount of incoming sensory information: taste and touch from the suckers, gravity sensed by structures called statocysts, as well as all the information that its sophisticated eyes collect. Hochner has described octopus movement and its evolution as examples of ‘intelligent embodiment’, a phrase used by roboticists to describe autonomous machines that learn behaviour through interacting with their environment. According to Dominic Sivitilli & coll., biological and artificial agents are faced with many of the same computational and mechanical problems, thus strategies evolved in the biological realm can serve as inspiration for robotic development, especially for the emerging field of soft robotics. Conventional global planning-based approaches to controlling the large number of degrees of freedom in an octopus arm would be computationally intractable. Instead, the octopus appears to exploit a distributed control architecture relied on top-down and bottom-up strategies that enables effective and computationally efficient arm control. Even though it is not possible today to build a robot with as many locally controlled degrees of freedom as an octopus, the architecture of the octopus could be implemented today in a robot with a smaller number of locally controlled degrees of freedom. #neuroscience #neurobiology #technology #artificialintelligence #robotics #softrobotics #movement See full texts: https://lnkd.in/ejt_2sq9 https://lnkd.in/eRNbzpAS https://lnkd.in/epsX7CNg Image: David Littschwager for National Geographic

In the ever-evolving realm of science and curiosity, cryonics is a remarkable practice—a mission to preserve human bodies at sub-zero temperatures for potential revival. But what are the odds of success?🔍 Cryopreservation transcends time, suspending individuals in a frozen slumber in anticipation of future revival. It involves cooling the body to temperatures below -130°C, pausing all biological activity. Determining the success probability is complex. Though exact numbers elude us, the potential is immense. Established cryopreservation techniques offer a glimmer of hope for the future.🌟 Renowned scientists like Gregory Fay, Brian Wowk, and Aubrey de Grey share the chorus of hope. With its advancements and promise, they believe cryonics can preserve and someday revive a person🗣️ Do you want to learn more? Check out the full article: https://ow.ly/QS1750Q4Uau

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🌟 Growing up, she dreamt of galaxies far away! 🌌 Now, she's a star in the biz world, proving life's curveballs can lead to home runs. 🤩👩🚀 Tap into your potential and shift your dreams to realities with us. 💼🚀 Connect for a free consultation👉 https://lnkd.in/gzdxNdFF #DreamsToReality #LifeLessons #ChangeMakers Change Navigator™ & Squirrel Wrangler™, #changenavigator, #squirrelwrangler, #neurolinguisticprogramming, #hypnosis, #mentalemotionalrelease

My artificial life simulation for spontanous emergence of group selection, group reproduction,.. as a step towards Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality. Agents, facilitated by Neuroevolution controllers, develop collectives, some survive and reproduce, without presupposing the group. #artificiallife #groupselection #neuroevolution