Genecks

Rawrrrrrrrrr

This poem goes out to the teaching assistant I had a large crush on.

 

The professor was pissy at me liking a woman more around my age range, instead of me hitting on the younger women.

 

His arrogance of getting between me and a woman I was interested in after a long depression and apathy towards romantic relationship made me want to kill his child because he had been so lucky in love that he appear to seem that all other humans aren't capable of love. Fudge that jerk. His taint rudeness made me consider beating the shit out of him in front of the 400 students that were surrounding us. His death would have been quick if I struck him... These days I've become an emotionless, psychopathic, megalomaniac who can only hope to feel or conceive of emotions such as love.

 

Soon your health will fade and your child will become more vulnerable than ever.

And then my friend, you die.

 

Naw, I'm just trying to seem cool.

 

I found this poem from a while back... 2010

 

Title: Panda Shirt

 

There I saw a goddess

 

Sure perhaps some normal woman

Standing out in the open

Showing her intelligence and rhetoric to the world

Something overpowered me to get close to her.

 

Wow.

 

Black hair

A love for nature

A desire to save the world

And a shirt with a panda bear

 

There I saw a goddess

 

Not some Wiccan witch

Who had this personality of a bitch

the kind who would ditch you

 

I just remember looking at her

I could feel a beat in my heart

She was definitely a work of art

 

Maybe it was this aggressive side

The kind I saw inside

her office room with the posting of the

bullet holes in targets she didn't hide

 

Maybe it was her love for animals

Or the rock climbing

or the spirit of adventure she has...

 

Wow.

 

Wondering how to talk to her

Observing her movements

Wondering how to say, "I thought someone like you didn't exist."

 

I don't remember the last time

I was crazy and out of my mind

She was the goddess I would never find

 

It's too bad that she saw me

point a gun to my head

and pull the trigger

wishing I were dead

because of all the pain I must endure

as I attempt to refrain

 

I would have given her

My love

My heart

My everything

 

She made me feel

like a giddy

little

boy

 

*bang*

 

And then in my rampage of hate and loneliness I forever endure, I continued the path of world destruction I had before I met her.

I saw her almost major punk ass talking down to people

She couldn't put on lock on the issue and get people

to stop talking to other people

 

And after a while I considered

that the reason she likes to ride her bike

with her sunglasses, curly hair, and ugly ass glasses

Is because she is a dyke

 

The sun got enough glare for you yet?

In a lot of ways snails take care of themselves. So, yeah, you can attempt to create larger generations of snails. However, I would suggest having a very large sample of snails in order to pick those who grow the most. That way you save a lot of time. Again, space becomes a factor. You'll need to house all of those snails and buy tanks, and make sure they are clean, and so on.

Maybe I'm new-age, but that still seems like learning to me. Perhaps I work off an old paradigm. Meh.

Association of stimuli leads to new behavioral output, seems like a kind of conditioning/learning.

Theoretically you should be able to induce point mutations like that, so yes.

Ions are using by the cell to establish and alter membrane potential and other physiological actions by the cell.

And ions can be considered parts.

 

What is your particular goal in asking these questions?

 

I gave you some nice links that go into some detail in discussing the philosophy of consciousness, even some discussing how neuroscience plays into all of it. Otherwise, much is yet to be discovered about neuronal cells. Many people hope they can generate a model of the nervous system based on the neural coding that exists rather the extreme levels of cellular biology involves. However, I often considered that method without the reductionist cellular biology to be a poor statistical approximate of what is really going on in the nervous system.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...

 

Well, there are plenty of rat and mouse models you could experiment with in order to get the virus working with them.

The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility that the virus starts attacking fat that's necessary for neural conduction.

If that occurs, then the virus is bad and can't be used for marketing purposes.

 

I suspect there are fat-cell specific proteins on the surface of these adipocytes...

 

Well, your theory is testable. However, I'm unsure of the negative consequences.

Perhaps it would attack fat reserves in particular organs that require fat... and perhaps the cellular death of these fat cells would release toxic chemicals too rapidly into the neighboring cells of that organ causing organ failure due to the toxicity... just a hypothesis.

 

Yeah, it could induce acidosis.

 

Personally I would think, ethical issues aside, that it would be far to difficult to regulate how much fat the virus attacks. If the virus wasn't stopped in time it would be the end of breasts as we know them.

 

Well, men would take the drug. But then again, there might be very negative outcomes for the buttocks, and sitting would become difficult.

What is it that you want replies about?

 

I believe there is a building and deconstruction aspect in relation to tubulin in reference to the recycling of dendritic spines. Probably also in reference to dendritic shafts, although my cellular biology knowledge is lacking in this department and I am tired at the moment. I believe the cellular construction of dendritic spines is quite contemporary, cutting-edge knowledge at the moment.

 

Is it done in the same way? Mmmmmm... No, I don't believe so, because I believe there are transport modules that help the proteins go into place...

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14704952

 

Organelles can be attached to the cytoskeleton, but I don't believe the generation of those organelles is the same as generating dendritic networks. Again, you'd more than likely want a hardcore cytologist to talk to about this. Perhaps there are enough evolutionary correlates to consider it the same, but I don't know cellular biology on that level well enough to say yes/no.

 

I believe there is a bunch of actin construction and deconstruction that occurs due to remodeling of neural synapses, which are due to stimulation (or lack of) of neural networks.

 

In reference to your last question, I don't think so. I would consider the peroxide ions and other junk to be waste if released improperly, but I'm not a biochemist, so I can't correctly answer the question.

I think I would ask, "Why are you guarding the door?"

 

And then I would tell the dudes to screw themselves, and I would bust out like Majin Buu in Dragon Ball Z when he got sealed into Kami's hyperbolic time chamber.

 

I've seen this riddle before. I've seen the answer.

And I'm pretty sure if I meet these dudes, I'm going to just pull a Majin Buu.

Maybe their job as guards is to make sure people actually do go through the doors.

Hmm.

Testing out an old picture of me.

Probably stress-related.

Consciousness is a tricky issue with multiple people considering it to be non-existent if not a recursive consideration of the individual parts working together as a perceptual whole.

 

But yeah, perhaps you could pull it off. You'd need a methodology in order to do it.

 

This would most likely involve controlling large populations of neural networks, which I don't think the delicate technology exists as of yet. You'd need something that stimulates, computes changes in cellular physiology, and relays digital and/or analog neural codes to other cells.

 

... side-track

 

I'm an identity theorist who believes that conscious is the recursive consideration of the individual parts working together. If you can't have the introspective aspect involved with the ability to take consideration of the limitations of the individual parts that make up the whole, then you've failed to replicate consciousness.

 

Greater knowledge of philosophy, technology, and science may persuade me away from such a standpoint.

 

Of the things I know, I know that identity theory is true on a physicalist basis.

 

... done with side-track

 

That can so far be done on a really small scale but not a large scale like you're requesting, at least I would think. Perhaps something could contemporarily be done with the somatosensory system and motor cortex, but I'm not sure nor giving the idea too much thought.

 

There is also the consideration that you can electrically stimulate the motor cortex to influence and efferent response while a person is alert and conscious, but I don't suspect that is what you're asking about.

 

Links:

1) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/

2) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

Well if the flesh of zombies is actually dead they wouldn't last long if only because there is no internal body regulation and the muscles and such would atrophy fairly quickly. But we could turn this into how close could something become a zombie realistically.

 

But how they are portrayed they would be pretty well useless

 

Well, I think the closest thing comes from the the most recent movie I Am Legend, which is based off a book of the same title. There is a type of biological agent that supposedly cures cancer but turns people into light fearing, intelligence lacking, ravenous humanoids that go around attacking people during night.

 

But the thing about zombies is that they are undead, that they are not obeying the natural rules of human physiology, and there is just something... unnatural about them.

 

If there was a zombie apocalypse, I suspect there would be plenty of business in the medical science department and physicist department in order to determine how these unnatural zombies work.

 

In terms of preparation, I figure fighting them would be similar to fighting Michael Myers from Halloween (one could only hope that the zombies are much less intelligent). In that case, you'll want to chop off their limbs and get out of the area as soon as possible (as they would piece back together). Probably building underground bunkers (people in America did this post-WWII because of continued nuclear threats) and having a Terminator III style nuclear bombing of the world might become a realistic consideration.

 

Swords would probably come back into style as would sword fighting.

 

In general, if you can't kill something, you should be able to trap it. Such was a case with Michael Myers. Idiots eventually decided to transport him somewhere, and that's how he got free.

 

Also, trapping zombies might help solve the economic crisis if they have an unnatural amount of energy that is limitless. I suspect people would actually hunt the zombies and put them to work like slaves in order to power cities and towns. Perhaps having a zombie apocalypse would be a good thing. But then there would be ethical issues and so-on. And then we'd have to give them citizenship. Ugh.

Lock please.

It seems like others must have tried this already. Maybe it takes thousands of generations to create a signifegent difference and it's being done right now.

 

I believe people haven't been extremely interested in sequencing a genome of that snail. However, there is published information on snail development.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10074/

The Early Development of Snails

- Gilbert

 

With that in mind, perhaps a large expansion in the knowledge of snail development could help you generate the large snails you desire. However, I think it would be unrealistic if not difficult to do yourself in a single human generation. Furthermore, snails take a while to breed.

 

With that said, it would definitely be useful to sequence the genomes of large snails and molluscs for better examination of their neurobiology, since snails tend to have very large neurons that are useful for electrophysiology research. However, it would appear that people are more interested in lamprey because they have a type of spine unlike the invertebrate snail.

I've recently read of the possibility of amoeba learning, which would classify it as a single-celled learning lifeform. However, I'm not sure how realistic that view is. It's on my list of things to further research.

 

http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4179

Memristive model of amoeba's learning

 

So, with that in mind, amoebas might communicate with each other.

But perhaps people are being too liberal with defining the concept of "learning."

I think the primary issue is that we are in the midst of a technological shift.

This involves the idea that we're more busy because of technological advancements.

Because of technological advancements, we aren't socializing as much anymore: We're in our own cubicles.

 

As with the technological shift, we're seeing advancements, such as online dating, social networking websites, and people using cell phones to socialize.

 

At the moment, a lot of dating via Internet/social websites is taboo to some people. They don't like the feel of it. However, since the 1980s, for what I understand, online dating (a kind of arranged dating) has been increasing more and more. And so you see people advertising themselves online more than before.

 

I believe as time progresses this century, more people will take up online dating. My most recent relationships involve women asking me out online. I honestly don't mind, because I find that I'm too busy to socialize/mingle/so forth. Despite all of this, I still find it a little cheesy to start up a relationship via the Internet. But I figure, "Well, whatever, I don't have time to go on dates over and over again."

 

In my hometown w/ about 150k people, I didn't find many single women. When I came to Chicago, I found plenty of single women. I think one's location also has a serious factor in whether or not they will find people to date.

 

Now, as a persona input about online dating websites, such as okcupid... There are a lot of female art majors on there... And it seems that the other extreme would be females from top unis who are done with graduate school. Maybe it's just my age group, though (mid 20s).

 

As a guy, I have the advantage of pro-creating as I age, thus being enabled to date women of pro-creative age in order to have kids (not on my list of things to do, btw).

 

I think out of all of this mess, women are going to have a lot of make-break situations where they must make quick decisions in who to date, because they're getting older and spending less time mingling (due to economic constraints). As such, women will more than likely be persuaded to date well-off gentlemen (perhaps more so than in the past). Online dating will give them an ability to choose amongst men who are well off: So, perhaps the need for a quick choice could be mitigated.

 

This, of course, would drive men to work more, save more, have to be nicer, and be older before being able to date women. Not as large as a problem for men, though, because they aren't as limited by reproductive biology.

I think human-animal hybrids for research are a great idea.

 

Gene homology exists between animals for coding similar structures with similar functions.

 

However, the gene code may not be the same. But if you replace the animal code with human code, you've (hopefully) made the animal more like a human for research. Now, the downfall is if things don't interact the same way during development and homeostasis.

 

If that occurs, hopefully it can be pinpointed and improved upon. I have a feeling that the downfalls would be difficult to pinpoint due to lacking scientific knowledge. I suspect there would have to be ground-up gene replacements where we know very, very well what a gene does and the cytological interactions. From there, tinkering can continue to make an animal model more like a human.

 

I'm not sure of current research, but it would be great if we could make, say, a pig heart more like a human heart for xenotransplantation. It might be more practical to work on that than actually build a biologically active artificial heart. Perhaps a hybrid of the methods might advance things even further.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jan/03/qanda.simonjeffery

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenotransplantation

As this is the field I work in , I can honestly say that I have never encountered this, ever.

 

Perhaps it is the other way around, then.

 

 

There are plenty of ecologists around the area who hold views that particular invasive plant species are bad and must be removed from the area at once. They hold the view that we need to keep the country's plants the same while attempting to maintain genetic diversity.

 

AKA: Everything must be the same all the time except the underlying genetics in order to preserve how everything looks.

 

It's like never moving the furniture around your house, bringing new furniture in, or removing furniture. It's like not living in your house, touching anything, yet having a programmatic way for everything to maintain itself in pristine order.

 

No, that's unrealistic, and I find it to be another form of human selection. I believe it's natural for humans to start introducing plants to foreign lands. Bugs land on plenty of travelling animals in order to get new areas. As such, it's unrealistic to say that asian plants shouldn't be in America. Some kind of travelling is going to occur and ecologists tend to have a habit of saying what is good/bad in nature. Getting grants to support their views can only help to justify their belief systems.

Maybe I want to know what Siberian tiger tastes like.

With only 700 left, we need to breed more of them for consumption.

 

/end Maddox argument

 

No, but really, unless something is keeping things in check, I find it natural that things revolve around dominating species. If humans are dominating, destroying, and so forth, yet this acts as a check-and-balance system for survival and progress, I don't see a problem with it. But the unnecessary destruction of life without attempting to enhance survival and progress is simply a waste of resources, thus not economically worthwhile.

 

I seem to often find the trend that ecologists and conservationists' views are slanted by the grants they receive.

Sure, some cognitive disabilities are genetically related: Fragile X.

 

There is much more to IQ than double-helix genetics, though.

MicroRNA, proteins, epigenetics, mRNAs, and so forth play a role in cognition.

Most tend to be determined by epigenetic control of double-helix genetics, though.

 

People may have the same genes, but there might be different epigenetic controls on them, thus accounting for the IQ differences.

Thanks for replying. The only majors (except for business/accounting and a dual-course engineering program) that the college offers that I think would relate to environmental work are biology, chemistry, biochemistry, environmental studies, and physics. I know biology isn't the greatest major, so that's why I'm thinking of adding a practical minor to it like accounting just to help with looking for work. Just a little bit depressing given how everyone seems to say that science majors are worthless and only engineering/business majors do well.

 

Science majors aren't worthless. But they tend to be worth more than social science, art, and humanities majors.

Without the science majors, there would not be medical science advancements, and society would be at a medical standstill.

Post-doc researchers make about 35k+ USD.

 

I often see a positive correlation between individual salary and the worth of grants brought in by said individual. This trend tends to be the same in business firms if your boss isn't trying to screw you over.

 

Yeah, business majors tend to make more money, though. Shorter time involved, and so forth. I advise people to actually get involved with business and some other major, because it's financially rewarding to do so.

 

I would say check out the environmental studies major. Furthermore, start messaging some of the environmental/ecology professors around that uni/college and start asking them for advice. Maybe try to meet and talk with them rather than an advisor: Ask for open office hours.

Even cancer can be killed, thus die. The body has a system setup to destroy cancers that arise. Sometimes the cancers are not destroyed.

 

Regenerative medicine at an ultimate would be used to revive the "dead." Maybe in the next hundred years, future advancements, such as saving one's biological state might persuade people to redefine death as a state from which one cannot be restored. Curious whether or not such a scenario is practical, as it would have to involve large evolutionary knowledge of cell development, including how to reform a plasma membrane from last known state, which is just some hardcore evodevo stuff. Ground-up regeneration.

 

I've been looking into the possibility of neural coding being recorded and used to re-instate memories through re-introduction of the neural pulses to the brain areas for encoding, such as the hippocampus. Again, cutting edge and still being looked into.

 

I've been on a biopunk cyborg fix as of late, since I've been persuaded by modern technology away from various Ghost in the Shell ideas.

 

"so what can be the processes to prevent cells from dying"

Cancer.

If cells don't die, but keep on multiplying they become a cancer.

Did you not know this?

 

Incidentally, we are quite good at banning people who break the rules and one rule is that once you are banned, you stay banned. Your style of writing is so distinctive that if you came back under another name you would be spotted banned, and deleted.

 

I've seen plenty of individuals type that way.

Despite that, it's seriously annoying and unusual to see Internet slang lexicon as a part of a foreigner's vocabulary usage.

Formal training of a foreign language often does not provide a person with slang and often advises people against using slang.

Hence, I can see why you think the person is a troll.

 

Also, chill out. If the person starts trolling on a legit level besides typographical errors, go for the ban.

Personally, I think it's time for a civil war in America.

I think if we had this civil war, though, America would easily be split into 5 regions.

We could easily isolate a lot of American issues if we start using nuclear power.

The problem from that would be an attack on such power plants (a nuclear war of sorts).