It is absolutely insane to me I get to witness these things in my lifetime. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, probably even beats the black hole photo.
Yes, this is extraordinary and I'm excited for the medical innovation that will come from it. For me until now it's been the photo of earth by Michael Collins, from the the first moon mission as he was above the moon lander, being the only living person not in the frame.
The black hole image to me was somewhat less impressive since it was so heavily computed. It's not like a camera was pointed in that direction and created an exposure over the course of minutes/hours/days like the Hubble/JWST Deep Fields. The images of Gargantua in Interstellar were more impressive than the black hole image to me.
Very impressive!
(On a more geeky note, I note that the movie zip's have a _MACOSX/Movie EV10 dir with a _Movie EV10 legent.txt with an OpenAI / Chatgpt URL in - I guess probably just making the (boring) titles for the video files. Odd. I hate to think what other _MACOSX dirs contain in released zips
You'd be really interested in Michael Levin's work (et al) on morphology and bioelectricity [0]. Cells are problem solvers.
His lab has shown functioning eyes on the backs of tadpoles, allowed frog leg regeneration where none existed, and performed several other modifications that change the communication between cells to trigger desired growth. Surprisingly, the interventions are point modifications, then the system handles the rest of the process.
Cell-to-cell communication has a lot of explanatory power for a cell (or collection of cells) "knowing what/where to be".
It is absolutely insane to me I get to witness these things in my lifetime. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, probably even beats the black hole photo.
Yes, this is extraordinary and I'm excited for the medical innovation that will come from it. For me until now it's been the photo of earth by Michael Collins, from the the first moon mission as he was above the moon lander, being the only living person not in the frame.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/05/micheal-collins/
The black hole image to me was somewhat less impressive since it was so heavily computed. It's not like a camera was pointed in that direction and created an exposure over the course of minutes/hours/days like the Hubble/JWST Deep Fields. The images of Gargantua in Interstellar were more impressive than the black hole image to me.
Very impressive! (On a more geeky note, I note that the movie zip's have a _MACOSX/Movie EV10 dir with a _Movie EV10 legent.txt with an OpenAI / Chatgpt URL in - I guess probably just making the (boring) titles for the video files. Odd. I hate to think what other _MACOSX dirs contain in released zips
I've always been wondering how cells "know" where they're supposed to move.
You'd be really interested in Michael Levin's work (et al) on morphology and bioelectricity [0]. Cells are problem solvers.
His lab has shown functioning eyes on the backs of tadpoles, allowed frog leg regeneration where none existed, and performed several other modifications that change the communication between cells to trigger desired growth. Surprisingly, the interventions are point modifications, then the system handles the rest of the process.
Cell-to-cell communication has a lot of explanatory power for a cell (or collection of cells) "knowing what/where to be".
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFFeRVEdUM
Same ways cells know how to be anything - DNA.
this is like saying "same way cells know how to be anything - quantum electrodynamics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
Cool