Red-tailed hawk: MIT and Harvard professors are researching what appears to be immortality - or reversing aging - via gene editing * * * Grandpa, Sandy Brown, as a Scottish Unitarian? ... Planning on releasing my first recording - "Honey in the Bag" - Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 ... (with some other projects before this: A) next book of poetry ahead this year, and maybe in 2019 beginning too, B) my Stanford-MIT STEM ethos comparison book since the 1960s in STS studies ... and hopefully, C) beginning my next actual-virtual Harbin book with realistic virtual earth in 2019) * * * Interesting post about 'consciousness' (how does it work? how to explain it?)

Monday, March 18, 2019

Thank you, M!

I don't think of Grandpa, Sandy Brown, as a Scottish Unitarian, but I could - and re even this Aberdeen (on the NE coast) Scotland Unitarian Tweet - 

Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, 16th March 2019 from 2 pm - 4:30 pm at the Unitarian Church Centre in #Aberdeen. It will be followed by a talk by John Hitchon - "Seven Ages of Man - One Name Study." All are welcome. #genealogy #Scotland pic.twitter.com/ZGeqi1E5JK

— ANESFHS (@anesfhs) March 16, 2019

 

https://twitter.com/anesfhs/status/1106743201199611904.

(Having lived two full years in Scotland, this announcement is very Scottish culturally; and with many roots in Maine in the U.S., my grandfather, ACB, felt phenotypically like he's 'out of the same mold' as other Scots I know... am thinking here in particular of Alex W, a Scottish Country Dancer who grew up in Glasgow - it's sometimes uncanny how much Alex reminds me of my mother's father in so many ways with his facial structure being only a little different - and also of SCD teacher, Linda H, who grew up outside Edinburgh in North Berwick :).

Started a second Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/ (after this older one, with its World Univ & Sch focus https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/world-university-and-school/ & https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/), and partly to explore this social media site further. 

Just made an appt. for 5000 mile maintenance tomorrow ($29.95 with promotion, I think - good price). 'Maint Reqd' light came on a few days ago at 4500 miles on schedule, after I had added a fair amount of oil about 2 weeks ago after seeing the red exclamation mark in a triangle. Adding oil in my old car at red exclamation mark in triangle appears to be the answer to this mystery signal ... and re the now familiar 'Maint Reqd' light. May get car washed this afternoon (and since the days are warming here on the ridge).

You might find this 'immortality' email to the Quaker non-theist Friends' email list this morning interesting: 

"Anita, and NtFs, 

A bit 'out of the box,' but these MIT and Harvard researchers are researching what appears to be possibly immortality - or reversing aging - via gene editing: 

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/lesser-celandine-university-on.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/brazilian-grapetree-dear-ntfs-no-more.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity

David Sinclair, Harvard researcher (originally from Australia), is the 'go to' person - https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1107418841058078720 

And here's a panel conversation with MIT and Harvard researchers' George Church, Ed Boyden, Patti Maes, David Sinclair and others about this - https://www.facebook.com/xapiensatMIT/videos/347012609252421/UzpfSTgyNDEzMDU2MToxMDE2MTM3ODMzNTI5MDU2Mg/ ... 

Further reason for NtF/friends / Quakers to escalate involvement in the Peace Movement - and now via the Internet - to help reduce mortality from war of both soldiers and civilians.

Cheers, Scott"

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/bark-botany-immortality-or-reversing.html - 

Stanford's on spring break ... time to get WUaS minutes out from home (which I outlined verbally in this mornings' WUaS Hangout on Air - )

Am planning on releasing my first recording - "Honey in the Bag" - Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020, for ongoing conceiving and playing tunes therein ... (with some other projects before this: A) next book of poetry ahead this year, and maybe in 2019 beginning too B) my Stanford-MIT STEM ethos comparison book since the '60s in STS studies ... and hopefully C) beginning my next actual-virtual Harbin book with realistic virtual earth in 2019)

May play through "Honey in the Bag" tunes this evening before SCD in the pretty courtyard at St. Clement's and before similar SCD parties ... 

L, Scott

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Interesting post about 'consciousness' (how does it work? how to explain it?) ...

Caesalpinia pulcherrima: Knowledge--consciousness * * * (and my idea: put networking video camera computers on neurons inside the head/in the brain - re awareness and subjectivity questions?) * * * "In "What is it Like to Be a Bat?", Nagel argues that consciousness has essential to it a subjective character, a what it is like aspect. He states that "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism""

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/caesalpinia-pulcherrima-knowledge.html

(See, too - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/)

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