Future of Science and Technology Q&A (August 2, 2024)
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Published 2024-08-02
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1:06 SW starts talking
1:20 How do you envision the future of physics-informed neuroscience? In particular, do you believe that despite the brain being a warm environment, quantum effects such as entanglement and superposition play a role in its function? Finally, do you think the concept of "quantum cognition" will remain more philosophical than scientific?
20:00 Are microtubules like electrochemical transistors?
22:33 Could the concrete Boolean arithmetic functional devices in our brains be affected by temperature, or is temperature one layer above that?
29:32 Which do you think would happen first: repairing brains naturally through natural science research or having the first "computer brain" transplant for those who suffer brain traumas?
41:48 I've heard AI should be able to develop treatments for cancer, but it will take decades of machine learning. What do you think could accelerate this learning process?
51:01 Maybe not a cure, but a control? Micro-monitoring and cancer-killing nanobots?
57:16 Will we ever perfect the human immune system?
1:04:34 Do you think that the relevance weight of the "microbiome" in medical science will increase in the future?
1:09:24 Maybe not an artificial brain, but what about artificial hearts? Would those be easier to have a technological implant vs. a natural one? Or even livers or kidneys?
1:12:03 In the future, hopefully we can have a machine/detector that can detect every atom or molecule in our bodies, and we can simulate solutions on a fast computer.
1:20:22 End Stream
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All Comments (7)
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For discussion around 32:00 about how to make cells do things Stephen should look into the work on Xenobots and more specifically Anthrobots by Michael Levin and also the work on Bioelectricities role in cell morphology.
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I sincerly apreciate this
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Well for discussion at 9:40, the collapse of multiple threads of quantum not only happens in brains but when any kind of interaction outside of the quantum state happens and destroys the quantum state - which is also sometimes called measurement. What about that. And sometimes such measurement systems are inorganic and relatively not as complex as brains.
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Once again Michael Levin addresses the issue of how cancer cells ( 47: 45) have their cognitive light cone shrunk and the their notion of self shrunk to themselves due to severing of gap junction with the surrounding cells in the tissue.
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