From: Ben Houston (ben@exocortex.org)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 11:57:58 MDT
Brian Phillips said:
> It would be nice to be able to do a Neurology residency
> or a clinical electophysiology Fellowship without the focus on
> epilepsy and pathology, and instead spead that time working
> on understanding the problems facing implants in healthy patients.
> I would give my left testicle (literally) for a Fellowship in
prosthetic
> medicine...but it ain't happening...
There's jobs in neural prosthetics... who said there wasn't? There's
even a moderately sized program out of NIH supporting such work for a
couple of years now:
http://npp.ninds.nih.gov/
Of course NIH isn't about transhumanism so you'll have to focus on
helping disabled people but that's a good starting point and probably
more useful in the near term. It will have useful transhuman offshoots
given time -- I think that you're trying to do things in the wrong
order.
Brian Phillips said:
> Whine whine whine.....
I think that you are whining about nothing -- you're simply not
informed.
I myself plan to get involved in this area...
Cheers,
-ben houston
http://www.exocortex.org/~ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com] On
Behalf
> Of > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 1:41 AM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: Minksy Talk
>
>
> > <<Our goal should be to provide worlds that are so exciting -- such
as
> those
> > that we read about in the novel 'True Names' -- that our players
will
> want
> to
> > remain in the game, instead of returning to their everyday jobs.>>
> >
> > Or, maybe our goal should be to create everyday jobs (in anti-aging
> technology
> > and cognitive "inloading," for example) that are so exciting they
seem
> more
> > like play than work.
> >
> > τΏτ
> >
> > Stay hungry,
> >
> > --J. R
> Actually you can make jobs like this..but they are custom and
require
> you do rather more than you really need to do the job to get the
> certs. I will wind up spending 3 years in Anesthesia or something so
> I can qualify to sit for the Anti-Aging Boards. In a way this is good
> since it gives me a solid trade but still...it would be nice to have
the
> choice. It would be nice to be able to do a Neurology residency
> or a clinical electophysiology Fellowship without the focus on
> epilepsy and pathology, and instead spead that time working
> on understanding the problems facing implants in healthy patients.
> I would give my left testicle (literally) for a Fellowship in
prosthetic
> medicine...but it ain't happening... you could get a PhD in
> Bioengineering...but there's another 4-5 years......
> "Everyday jobs" that are push a button, get your grades, give up
> this much time and here's the job...well maybe they exist ..but
> most of the neat ones I have found you have to build from scratch.
> Whine whine whine.....
>
> Regards,
> Brian
> (Dr. Borg wannabe!)
>
>
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