<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p><i>Researchers have developed a way to make a mouse transparent — by removing the liquids and fats from its tissue.</i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### This and other similar methods are the second coolest thing happening this millennium so far. Chemopreservation of the human brain, followed by staining, clearing and thick-slice optic scanning might produce an upload file much easier than electron microscopy based methods, if the neural dust idea does not pan out.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, neural dust interface analysis could be done first, followed by destructive scanning. The two sources of information would mutually constrain the space of solutions in the resulting model of the mind, thus significantly reducing information loss and computational overhead.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał </div></div>
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