<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What this incredible study says to me:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">From the mice's point of view, they found out that their glial cells were not designed in the very best way and so profited by an injection of better ones.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">From our point of view, we do not know if any better glial cells exist, but can consider the possibility of designing such. The same could go, I suppose, for neurons as well, or even muscles, tendons, bones, glands, the whole shebang.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are now learning to design chromosomes and will learn to design genes if we haven't already. Transhumanism will happen even without installing inorganic anything to link us with something external, like a supercomputer.<br><br>Bill w<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On Dec 11, 2014 11:12 AM, "Tara Maya" <<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Oh god, it’s the Secret of Nimh!</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Only if the mice start getting telekinesis on top of intelligence. ;)</p>
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