[FRIAM] Heart Rate

[Marcus Daniels]

One way to prepare for decline is to accumulate wealth to share with children and grandchildren.   Another way is to bank stem cells and to stay fit.   But when death comes, I wonder how far we off from being able to harvest memories from the morphology of dendritic spines? [1]  One might imagine using magnetoencephalography or implants like Neuralink to spatially map the brain for content (with machine learning + recall exercises), and then after death do detailed imaging of the tissue itself.    A demo like recovering an image of the subject’s wife just from brain slices?   That would raise some venture capital eh?   Throwing away the hard disk seems crazy with the computer seems pretty wasteful.  Especially for fine specimens like Frank.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00031/full
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
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Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die.  So it

doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated.

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Something similar to that, so thank you for this opportunity to clarify. What are examples of goals that others not like yourself might have? For one, they may not think that saving a few million lives is worth preserving the status quo, the power structures that have the world veering toward its death. I suggested (with tongue only partially in cheek) that mother nature offered a solution for recalibrating the power distribution and that we found a vaccination for it. Sure, hot words, but not that much more triggering than the shit we usually say in a Friam meeting. I hear ageist, racist and classist remarks nearly every Friday, so shrug.



For instance, you made it clear that everybody in Pittsburgh knows who is black and who isn't. Another suggested that life was easier back then. EricC slid one under your radar by asking if it was based on the standard definition that of having 1/4 black heritage, to which you thoughtlessly agreed. Nick or maybe someone else pointed out that the studies did not hold up in Africa and that the correspondence was maybe not the result of "race" (whatever that is) but relatively recent cultural pressures (the descendants of those that did not die on a difficult journey across the ocean and into slavery to serve your ancestors[!]).



It is clear that continuing to push your personal work is your own narcissism and not because it is relevant to anything (like your anecdote about StuK and you bullying some researchers that actually did work into adding you both onto their paper). What could it mean to be relevant? I leave that to you as an exercise.



All said, I care about you Frank, and I also must call a spade a spade (that is a saying isn't it?) There is no reason for you to collect more per month now than anytime in your working life when so many people continue to work harder than you could have ever imagined for yourself, often risking their lives so that some silver fox can demand a refund for their steak being a little overcooked. I am not asking that you give away your comfort, but to acknowledge and maybe even attempt to set things right. Btw, I recognize and deeply respect the good things you are doing for your grandchildren.



What I am asking for is the vulnerability to hear that others may be upset and their reasons worth feeling. Generationally speaking, I am a genX-er and we are very clear that there were never enough of us to matter and that the protests of our generation were quickly silenced by a phony war on terror. There is no part of me that wishes for what you boomers had (and squandered in your great numbers), but rather, I wish to understand how to support the generations after mine that are left with the legacy of boomer self-obsession. So, um... whatever dude.



[!] But please, tell me again about your native american heritage.
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