Gods---sans Monsters. (of "Mice" and "Mandlers")

What did the German people know about the Holocaust?

                                      

                                                                       

What do the Scientists Know or Care about Human Testing?*
 

Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery

By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News
Oct 2014

  Edward Moser, John O'Keefe and May-Britt Moser share the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain's "GPS system".UK-based researcher Prof John O'Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edward Moser share the award.They discovered how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate from one place to another.

 

His work showed that a set of nerve cells became activated whenever a rat was in one location in a room.A different set of cells were active when the rat was in a different area.Prof O'Keefe argued these "place cells" - located in the hippocampus - formed a map within the brain.

He will be having a "quiet celebration" this evening and says the prize money "should be used for the common good".In 2005, husband and wife team, May-Britt and Edward, discovered a different part of the brain which acts more like a nautical chart.
These "grid cells" are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate. They work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Prof May-Britt Moser said: "This is crazy, this is such a great honor for all of us and all the people who have worked with us and supported us."

 Secretary of the Nobel Assembly, Goran K Hansson, announces the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine .The Nobel committee said the combination of grid and place cells "constitutes a comprehensive positioning system, an inner GPS, in the brain".

He told the BBC: "He absolutely deserves the Nobel Prize, he created a cognitive revolution, his research was really forward thinking in suggesting animals create representations of the external world inside their brains."

"Place cells help us map our way around the world, but in humans at least they form part of the spatiotemporal scaffold in our brains that supports our autobiographical memory.

*Human Augmentation: A Bioethical Implication Analysis of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology, and Upgrades to the Human Body-

Chase Andres Manuel

December 17, 2012

Bioethics is the division of applied ethics that researches the philosophical, social, and legal issues which arise in medicine and the life sciences. Some of the basic moral questions which must be asked to gauge such bioethical issues: Are we in some cases treating human life as raw material to be exploited as a natural resource? Have we blurred the line between creation and manufacture? What moral boundaries should researchers observe? For the general public, biotechnology, and the bioethics that can govern how we decide to use that technology, affects many aspects of people's lives. Bioethical choices can determine the way people bring their children into the world, the way disease or disability are treated, the way physical characteristics are used by the government...in 2010 hearings were held on the admissibility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) lie detection evidence, a Florida court was the first in the nation to admit quantitative encephalography (qEEG) evidence

(i.e "Mind Reading Technology" Given its lasting potential to reshape the legal system it is crucial for the legal community to have resources with which they can learn and engage with neurolaw.

Nanotechnology, the influence of matter at the scale of billionths of meters, enables the most sweeping technology enhancement to be "practiced" without a person's knowledge. Some examples of nanotechnology enhancements include the replacement or bonding with individual neurons enabling highly integrated Brain Computer Interfaces capable of projecting full-immersion virtual reality from within an individual’s nervous system.