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...What’s a better predictor of the future—the human brain or a Ouija Board...
...hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don’t know anybody who’s ever done that study, but I would suggest that there would be plenty of people who would go into that machine, lay down and have...
Several countries, including the United Kingdom and Singapore, endorse nuclear transfer research, but strictly prohibit any attempts at reproductive cloning. This means that a ban on nuclear transfer in the United States may lead to a brain drain outside of U.S. academic and corporate laboratories. Nor is it inconceivable that new medical treatments become available abroad while the United States is under...
Anyone who has ever cared for an extremely premature infant knows the stakes are high. Doctors can sustain a tiny baby with severe bleeding in the brain, with lungs so fragile that even the gentlest respirator can permanently damage them. But should they? "That's when neonatology becomes a difficult and ethically fraught field," says Dr. Myra Wyckoff of the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas. No matter how you answer the question, surely the best solution is to find a way to reduce the number of extremely premature births from happening in the first place. --Reported...
...finest ideas in Far Away and Top Girls (my first directing project) came from the stage manager, an actor, the costume designer and the best times I’ve had as an actor or designer has been when the director has acknowledged that I have a brain and a voice...