[FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

[Nick Thompson]

And then what will we die of?  

 

Before we make life infinite, we better change the laws to make death voluntary. 

 

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Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 1:24 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

 

A couple articles in this week’s Science relating to the programmability of cells.

 

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987

 

“This enables the design of cycles and developmental networks for engineering applications that require that cells exist in a particular state for an unspecified amount of time. For example, therapeutic cells could be built to sense transient stimuli, such as throughout the gastrointestinal tract, and switch to a new state when the next signal is encountered. There are similar applications for diagnostic cells ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-48> 48,  <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-76> 76– <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-81> 81), pathways to complex chemicals and materials that require cycles of ordered operations ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-82> 82), and sentinel plants and microbes with responsive traits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-31> 31,  <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-83> 83,  <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaap8987#ref-84> 84).”

 

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252

 

“For example, existing cancer-detection circuits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-66> 66,  <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-67> 67) could conditionally express CHOMP components to increase specificity and couple to protein-mediated inputs and outputs. Integrating these capabilities, one can envision smart therapeutics or sentinels based on CHOMP circuits ( <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-68> 68,  <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1252#ref-69> 69).”

 

And those are the just some of the friendly applications.

 

Marcus

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