Comments on: The new era of health and medicine as an information technology is broader than individual genes http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine Accelerating Intelligence Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Editor http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-24331 Editor Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:38:37 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-24331 You can send questions to Ray Kurzweil at askray@kurzweilai.net You can send questions to Ray Kurzweil at askray@kurzweilai.net

]]> By: figguresn http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-24327 figguresn Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:29:51 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-24327 With regard to the subject of genomics, do you think that PARP inhibitors may contribute to a cure for some forms of cancer Mr. Kurzwell? With regard to the subject of genomics, do you think that PARP inhibitors may contribute to a cure for some forms of cancer Mr. Kurzwell?

]]> By: The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View | KurzweilAI http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-4064 The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View | KurzweilAI Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:00:17 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-4064 [...] linear small science, and not of the huge technology-driven data sets that Kurzweil describes.[In "The new era of health and medicine as an information technology is broader than individual genes," published Feb. 4, 2011 on KurzweilAI, Ray Kurzweil further responds to these criticisms. Summing [...] [...] linear small science, and not of the huge technology-driven data sets that Kurzweil describes.[In "The new era of health and medicine as an information technology is broader than individual genes," published Feb. 4, 2011 on KurzweilAI, Ray Kurzweil further responds to these criticisms. Summing [...]

]]> By: Our narrow view of genomics « BioTrenches http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-3109 Our narrow view of genomics « BioTrenches Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:58:38 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-3109 [...] http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine Tagged as: Genomics, Kurzweil Leave a comment Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) ( subscribe to comments on this post ) [...] [...] http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine Tagged as: Genomics, Kurzweil Leave a comment Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) ( subscribe to comments on this post ) [...]

]]> By: richiemobile http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-2613 richiemobile Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:40:11 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-2613 Ray,I am so excited about the potential developments in stem cell and pluropotent Cancer treatment. I would also want to call attention to neoplasm blocking nutritional and pharmiological technologies emerging in the literature. The work at the U of Colorado has produced an technology which amps up the capacity of the cells to assimilate free radicals marketed under the name Protandim, A research physician in Japan Dr. Shozo Umezawa patented in the US a mycological substance which in clinical trials operates as an enzymatic polysaccharized protien and in clinical trials at the mitsui hospital system in Japan profoundly amped up the immune system to fight tumors, apparently regardless of their derivation. Alan Datscots Ray,I am so excited about the potential developments in stem cell and pluropotent Cancer treatment. I would also want to call attention to neoplasm blocking nutritional and pharmiological technologies emerging in the literature. The work at the U of Colorado has produced an technology which amps up the capacity of the cells to assimilate free radicals marketed under the name Protandim, A research physician in Japan
Dr. Shozo Umezawa patented in the US a mycological substance which in clinical trials operates as an enzymatic polysaccharized protien and in clinical trials at the mitsui hospital system in Japan profoundly amped up the immune system to fight tumors, apparently regardless of their derivation.

Alan Datscots

]]> By: JCDenton http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-2469 JCDenton Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:27:36 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-2469 Ray, i find this progress amazing but at the same time kinda scary, because at the same time that we can cure rare diseases, we can create horrible viruses. So i ask you, is it possible to achieve medical progress for the benefit and benefit only of the entire human kind? Ray, i find this progress amazing but at the same time kinda scary, because at the same time that we can cure rare diseases, we can create horrible viruses.
So i ask you, is it possible to achieve medical progress for the benefit and benefit only of the entire human kind?

]]> By: Brian H http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-2432 Brian H Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:26:18 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-2432 I find it very interesting that so much of the non-coding DNA persists, and is strongly conserved. A speculative article in an AI text I read in the '80s noted that the repeating sequences form a frequency distribution almost identical to that of words in a language! If that observation is combined with the layered "neural net" model, it seems that rules, biases, and "guides" for activation and/or mutation of coding genes under a range of pressures/inputs would be almost inevitably conserved by cells/organisms if they had them. They would be immensely powerful in "tree-trimming" the huge "uniformitarian" potential massive numbers of random point mutations, e.g., required to get a selectable phenotype change. Even a weak, sloppy "rule" would be a huge advantage. So I think the 95%+ non-coding mass of DNA contains implicit &/or explicit guidelines for mutation under stress, amongst much else. (An internal user/developer manual for the nucleus, in effect.) So beyond understanding the operating language of coding genes, there would be this whole "meta-language" which is very potent. I call it "Autologous Intelligent Design", as it rapidly and potently self-organizes and directs form and function. I find it very interesting that so much of the non-coding DNA persists, and is strongly conserved. A speculative article in an AI text I read in the ’80s noted that the repeating sequences form a frequency distribution almost identical to that of words in a language!
If that observation is combined with the layered “neural net” model, it seems that rules, biases, and “guides” for activation and/or mutation of coding genes under a range of pressures/inputs would be almost inevitably conserved by cells/organisms if they had them. They would be immensely powerful in “tree-trimming” the huge “uniformitarian” potential massive numbers of random point mutations, e.g., required to get a selectable phenotype change. Even a weak, sloppy “rule” would be a huge advantage.

So I think the 95%+ non-coding mass of DNA contains implicit &/or explicit guidelines for mutation under stress, amongst much else. (An internal user/developer manual for the nucleus, in effect.)

So beyond understanding the operating language of coding genes, there would be this whole “meta-language” which is very potent. I call it “Autologous Intelligent Design”, as it rapidly and potently self-organizes and directs form and function.

]]> By: AeaeaActual http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-new-era-of-health-and-medicine/comment-page-1#comment-2390 AeaeaActual Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:45:55 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=106736#comment-2390 Thank you, Mr. Kurzweil. Well written, well considered. @AeaeaActual Thank you, Mr. Kurzweil. Well written, well considered.
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