by this logic, with humans having millions of neurons in other parts of the body, such as the gut, we may have consciousness spread out over the body, not just the brain.
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also to quote the transcript "The pandemic is still here. We're not at the endemic phase yet. But I do think we're transitioning, and I think it's a good roadmap."
there's dozens upon dozens of orders of magnitude of space that a being could occupy. scanning for life through the multiverse and time, it would also be easy to miss us. too small and you see cells and organelles, larger we see organs mixed with bacterial cultures, etc, and at just the right scale we are visible.
there are arguments that earth is a living entity, and there may be larger forms of life going many orders of magnitude larger than planet-sized.
with such a large range of time, location and scale to scan for life, it could be argued we basically don't even exist.
from the description:
> This is a single-celled organism in the genus Blepharisma and it is dying. I don't find them in my samples often, they usually have pinkish color and they are photophobic it means when the light levels are increased they will try to swim to the darkened areas. If they are exposed to light or starved, they will lose their pinkish color and will look like this one in the video, also strong light can even kill the colored ones. I don't know why this one died but how it dissolves to nothingness just broke my heart. Big or small, life is fragile.
since then, we now call this post-covid complication MIS-C and there's increasing coverage and study into it. i do recall coming across another study looking at a more broad range of age groups and noting a 20 fold increase of cardiovascular diagnoses.
overall, we still have a lot to learn about this virus.
It is true all batteries heat when charging, but this is not what I am talking about here. Simpliphi batteries do not require any cooling system because the chemistry is more thermally stable and does not have a risk of thermal runaway, even charging at high power. Tesla batteries have a cooling system not for the heat generated by charging alone, but because of the runaway thermal reactions involving cobalt.