Absurdity & Suicide – From Camus
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind hasnine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. And if it is true, as Nietzsche claims, that a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example, you can appreciate the importance of that reply, for it will precede the definitive act. These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.”
Don’t be too busy to have a meaningful conversation. (Small talk maybe killing you, and it could lead to the less thoughtful and more desire of consequences as Camus mused upon in the above article)
I love their tone, because this is by far the most unbelievable and exciting thing I have read in medical sci-tech in a long time. Hello future? We have arrive! Should we wipe out feet?
Printing organs is here.… from skin grafts to kidneys. What? Seriously? Oh my. That seems like the Delorean with gull wing doors, to be sure. But moving through time is what I equated to this statement:
“Some researchers think machines like this may one day be capable of printing tissues and organs directly into the body. Indeed, Dr Atala is working on one that would scan the contours of the part of a body where a skin graft was needed and then print skin onto it.”
This isn’t science fiction, folks… but maybe this is.
“InSightec’s high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) device is a bit like a helmet, lined with more than 1,000 ultrasound transducers. Each can be focused individually to send a beam into the brain of the person wearing the helmet. The focused beams converge on a spot only four millimeters wide, accurate enough to hit an artery-blocking clot and dissolve it in under a minute. “Outside this focus, the ultrasound energy is completely negligible,””
Oh wait.. that isn’t scifi. It’s real. And when you couple a skin grafting printer with a tumor busting sound wave, I think you get a combination of holy shit, what the hell, AWESOME, and jaw dropping yammering. It is *NOT* far fetched, or a stretch of the mind, to think there could be an application for some of this stuff on your phone. The latter for sure…. highly targeted sonic pulses helping beat cancer. The hardest question is whether you want the curative pulse to be on the order of hip hop or classical.
So much to think about, so much to read, so much to try and understand oh my gosh I wish me luck.