Ihm Curious
@IhmCurious
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Ihm Curious makes videos about scientific topics at the bleeding edge of human sanity. Elliott is a doctor, but not the kind that can help you.
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined February 2021
New study from @visceral_mind finds a surprising link between stomach-brain synchrony and mental health. Congrats @LeahBanellis et al.!. Interview here:
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RT @NeurosurgUCSF: Today in @NatureNeuro, researchers led by @LabNowakowski, @ChangLabUCSF & Mircea Teodorescu (@ucscgenomics) demonstrate….
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New CRISPR-based method for generating cross-species chimeras --> mouse grown with a rat-based brain:
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Aphantasia, or "blind imagination", could help researchers solve a big problem in consciousness research. Thanks to @hakwanlau for the discussion!.
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Was Francis Crick on LSD when he realized DNA had a double-helix structure? The Internet is split, so I asked his collaborator Christof Koch:
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Defining "consciousness" with Anil Seth, and how different theories of consciousness talk past each other:
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New study connects two brain organoids with an axon bundle!. They found evidence of communication between organoids, leading to more complex neural activity.
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Neuralink's "Blindsight" implant probably won't look like early Nintendo graphics:
@cb_doge @neuralink I should mention that the Blindsight implant is already working in monkeys. Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision. (Also, no monkey has died or been seriously injured by a Neuralink device!).
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RT @elonmusk: Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking.
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Neuralink's "Telepathy" - More like telekinesis? See the other brain implants are closer to real telepathy: sending thoughts with your mind
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RT @elonmusk: The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron….
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RT @lakens: In psychology 96% of published tests of hypotheses find support for their hypothesis. This means that as a scientist you need a….
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RT @RCarhartHarris: I have had an experience with one patent holding company that refused to provide a 2a blocker they held because the des….
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RT @emollick: This is quite a paper on AI and scientific research!. The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemi….
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New recipe makes human brain organoids more human-like: expanded neuroepithelium organoids.
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RT @ir413: we have trained a humanoid transformer with large-scale reinforcement learning in simulation and deployed it to the real world z….
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RT @emollick: The thing about LLMs that make them unintuitive is that analogizing them to having a scifi AI is less useful than thinking of….
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RT @Rainmaker1973: Believe it or not, in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a….
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