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This is good news! I wonder how much of the next few decades will be tech to bridge the gap between the way humans think and low-level bio-sciences. Just readi
by dsign 5y ago
This is good news!
I wonder how much of the next few decades will be tech to bridge the gap between the way humans think and low-level bio-sciences. Just reading this article, I find a lot of lingo what while not too difficult to understand, it's not too informative either. And those abbreviations! How do you talk to your colleagues about OMEGA, one of the proteins in the article? Do you say "Capital Ou, Capital em, Capital Gee, Capital A"? or just "omega", or "all capitals omega"? And that's just one term.
Imagine a world where you could cure any disease of yours, _if only_ you knew enough biology and spent a few hours per week checking and troubleshooting your low-level bio. I reckon that the way we represent our biology research today would be a huge barrier to most, probably a new social divide, like it was the ability to read in the past.
- netizen-936824 5y agoJust a comment about pronunciation of these abbreviations. If it can be said like a normal word it usually is, so likely people will just say "omega". AMPA is also pronounced, while NMDA is spelled out in speech "... the En Em Dee Ayy receptor complex..."