augmentation lab

First launch from our sister entity 🦾 Congrats @dunyaverse & team!

Recommendation: sound on. You're missing out on the fun otherwise.

Can we make a cell younger without making it forget what it is?

Researchers can turn adult cells back into stem cells, resetting many signs of aging. But that also erases the cell’s specialized role. A nerve cell still needs to work as a nerve cell.

Partial epigenetic reprogramming aims to restore youthful function while preserving that role.

Animal studies have produced encouraging results, including improved vision in mice. Clinical trials must establish whether these approaches can deliver safe, lasting benefits in people.

At our Human Augmentation Summit, Doğa Yücel, a researcher at @harvardmed, and @M_S_Ringel, PhD, COO at @lifebiosciences, explored how the biology of rejuvenation can lead to treatments for age-related disease.

Watch the full talks:
Doğa: youtube.com/watch?v=3JZCkL…
Michael: youtube.com/watch?v=uUvv40…

Reading recommendation for tonight:

Andy Clark & David Chalmers (1998) - "The Extended Mind"

proposes that cognitive processes are not bounded by the skull or skin, but extend into the physical environment and external tools when they function as seamless parts of the cognitive loop

alice.id.tue.nl/references/cla…

practical value: theoretical cornerstone for bio-aligned preference tuning and ambient computing interfaces that act as continuous extensions of biological cognition

Every augmentation is also an amputation.

Technology extends what humans can do - but can also change what we stop doing for ourselves.

We’re opening the Human Augmentation Summit archive with Prof. Hiroshi Ishii (@ishii_mit) of the MIT Media Lab.

Privacy is freedom. AI notetakers make it impossible to know when someone is recording us without consent. We need new tools to fight surveillance capitalism!

We're glad @be_inaudible (an auglab spinout) is working on this.