Lifeboat Foundation

The 2021 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Martine Rothblatt who has devoted her life to moving humanity towards a positive future.

Martine was the 500th person to join our Advisory Board, has contributed to our blog, and has generously supported the Lifeboat Foundation’s goal of “Safeguarding Humanity”.

Martine is cofounder of the Terasem Movement Foundation. Their mission is to promote the geoethical (world ethical) use of nanotechnology for human life extension. They conduct educational programs and support scientific research and development in the areas of cryonics, biotechnology, and cyber consciousness. This foundation is related to the Lifeboat Foundation programs LifePreserver and PersonalityPreserver (which Martine contributed text to).

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙔𝙤𝙧𝙠:

The Neuro-Network.

𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙂𝙪𝙩-𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

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When we think about gene editing, the first thing we remember is the designer babies, and that it’s usually called unethical. But actually, gene editing (CRISPR) may be one of the most promising upcoming medical technologies. Learn why in this video.

Check out other videos from this series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWSi4zEceYXPCBYXZ9ZEV-9q44ebksoo.

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Tiny amounts of artificial noise can fool neural networks, but not humans. Some researchers are looking to neuroscience for a fix.

Companies and labs are racing to build next-generation devices that track and translate brain activity to help people immobilized by disease or injury handle tasks requiring movement.

Circa 2017

A new interface system allowed three paralyzed individuals to type words up to four times faster than the speed that had been demonstrated in earlier studies.

Summary: Neurons in the primary olfactory cortex play a role in encoding spatial maps, a new study reports.

Source: champalimaud centre for the unknown.

Smell has the power to transport us across time and space. It could be the sweet fragrance of jasmine, or the musty scent of algae. Suddenly, you are back at your childhood home, or under the burning sun of a distant shore.

To solve the mysteries of how learning and memory occur, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have created a system to track millions of connections among brain cells in mice—all at the same time—when the animals’ whiskers are tweaked, an indicator for learning.

Researchers say the new tool gives an unprecedented view of brain cell activity in a synapse—a tiny space between two brain cells, where molecules and chemicals are passed back and forth.

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General anesthesia doesn’t just work on your brain or on your mind. It works on your consciousness. By altering the delicate electrochemical balance within the neural circuitry inside your head, the basic ground state of what it is to “be” is — temporarily — abolished. In this process lies one of the greatest remaining mysteries in science, and in philosophy too.

Somehow, within each of our brains, the combined activity of billions of neurons, each one a tiny biological machine, is giving rise to a conscious experience. And not just any conscious experience, your conscious experience, right here, right now.