The Cross Heads

How should we treat beings that might be sentient?

What’s needed, Birch argues, when faced with such staggering uncertainty about the sentience stature of other beings, is a precautionary framework that outlines best practices for decision-making regarding their care. And in The Edge of Sentience, he provides exactly that, in meticulous, orderly detail. Over more than 300 pages, he outlines three fundamental framework principles […]

November 30, 2024 | Biology, consciousness, ethics, neurobiology, Science, sentience | No comments

Astrocytes play a key role in memory

“In simple terms, we use genetic tools that allow us to inject mice with a drug that artificially makes astrocytes express some other gene or protein of interest when they become active,” says Wookbong Kwon, a biotechnologist at Baylor College and co-author of the study. Those proteins of interest were mainly fluorescent proteins that make […]

November 23, 2024 | astrocytes, Biology, memory, neurobiology, neurons, Neuroscience, Science | No comments

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