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sleep & dreams & memory & forgetting

An idea worth spreading

To live is to dream

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• A reply on Talk: Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying

  Jan 31 2013: You care. We care. That's a start, doesn't it?

• A reply on Talk: Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying

  Jan 31 2013: Excellent point. I think the final word should rest with who is going to die.

• A reply on Talk: Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying

  Jan 31 2013: Euthanasia is a different situation from being unable to speak for himself. It might be similar in the situation when the patient loses consciousness and has previously stated to avoid any measure to prevent death, but even then the patient is not requesting to be killed voluntariously. By the way, euthanasia is likely to hurt the close living ones, specially who participated in this utlimate action.

• A reply on Talk: Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals

  May 3 2012: Olá. Eu traduzi essa palestra e ela está sob revisão. Logo estará disponível em poucos dias...

• A comment on Talk: A TED speaker's worst nightmare

  Mar 12 2012: Although it was funy, I wonder if Apple would sue him for copyright issues...
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  A comment on Conversation: Quais os novos desafios para a educação formal em uma nova economia colaborativa?

  May 6 2011: A educação formal precisa se desamarrar de instâncias burocráticas e dinamizar a sua estrutura, de forma a abranger a realidade dos estudantes, atender às dificuldades dos professores e atualizar as disciplinas antes que se tornem obsoletas. Acredito que um caminho para tudo isso esteja desenhado na palestra de Salman Khan:
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

• A comment on Conversation: [Spanish-Español] Si se recibiera una señal de inteligencia extra terrestre ¿deberíamos responder? ¿qué deberíamos decir?

  May 6 2011: Al principio deberíamos analisar la respuesta. Hay otros detalles importantes como la localidad del senãl, el tiempo de la respuesta y la praticidad de una conversa con atraso de algunas décadas, por ejemplo. Quizá podríamos dicer que tudo está bien por el momento...
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  A comment on Conversation: Should the internet be a fundamental right?

  Feb 28 2011: I say yes, the Internet should be a fundamental right, as it is very closely associated with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especifically the Article 27:
  
  * (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
  
  * (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
  
  Best regards
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  A reply on Talk: Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color

  Feb 28 2011: Dear Michael Leander,
  
  A possible explanation for your first question is that our ozone layer is currently at risk, thus allowing high UV levels to irradiate on people, causing high risk of skin cancer amongst low pigmented people and low risk of rickets amongst high pigmented people. Of course, the selection pressure is not evident nowadays as we can overcome the aforementioned risks with several artificial means at hand (i.e.sunscreen and vitamin D supplements).
  As for your second issue, there is evidence that modern lifestyle and excessive use of sunscreen might have lead to recent increase of ricket cases amongst low pigmented children.
  Finally, the historical case for rickets in UK might have been caused by air pollution from smoke produced by burning coal during Industrial Revolution.
  
  A few references:
  www.ktradionetwork.com/health/sunscreen-causing-rickets-in-middle-class-english-children/
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16995805

• A comment on Talk: Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

  Feb 23 2011: As robotics has reached amazing levels in the last few years, I wonder if the novel applications showed by Dr Breazeal - specially the MeBot - will turn out to be a consolidation of the mental self extension (mentioned by Dr Amber Case) in the physical world. Maybe this is the first glimpse of the rise of cyborgs - in the sense that the mental self has now a body of his own.