That's a line you may not want to cross for pretty obvious reasons. Somatic edits just means in the body of the patient.And that's been done quite a bit with no controversy.
of the super organism that you have sees a reproductive unit which can function fully for 15 to 20 years and then the somatic body all these specialized workers but part of the super organism is all the the check landok neststhey're huge they have ventilation chimneys here as you see that the fungus produces
Peripheral nerves that control our muscles throughout our extremities. There's a somatic nervous system. That's involved in voluntary responses.
And we are only in the beginning stages of understanding how toxic those feelings are to the brain. It hurts somatic tissue. And it hurts neural cells.
cost-benefit-analysis type stuff. But that's not the whole story. We also consult physical somatic memories of our past emotional states. Noticing how we felt as the result of making similar decisions in the past.
And it uses those to assist it in making decisions. Those are the somatic markers. When you're trying to make the decision, you unconsciously recall memories of previous similar situations and remember those feelings that you had in your body about the outcome.
Those are the somatic markers. So that's how somatic markers work.
there is. Somatic cells already know what their job is, and they can't do anything else. So the idea of somatic cell nuclear transfer is to trick a somatic cell into forgetting all the instructions necessary to be that type of cell, and to revert into a state where it can actually, then, become every type of cell in a body and create a whole being.
This was work by the Roswell Institute in Scotland. And they took a somatic cell-- in this case it was a mammary cell from an adult sheep, a ewe-- and they took those cells and basically starved them. They starved them of nutrients in a dish in a lab.
So can infect him with malaria and get the therapeutic benefit, if it had that, for their mental problems, but he could also control their somatic symptoms with quinine. And he got a Nobel Prize for that.
That's sight, sound, so on. We have somatic sensations for the external world. We have visceral sensations for internal world.
So I just became really curious about it. And I started studying somatic intelligence, which is basically "soma" is Greek for the body. I started learning about, what does that really mean?
So I had a client that had a really tough ache from the top of his head down the back of his neck for six years. Or a "somatic recall?" What that's saying is that everything that ever happened to us, from the womb until today, lives
oops the queen and the somatic or cell body that they need the somatic bodies of the super organism the cell it's the organs which keeps it super organism alive they're workers now in order that such a
So empathy is that experience of somatic emotional or affective resonance, as well as cognitive resonance with another. We can be somatically attuned, for example, and not being necessarily in resonance emotionally and cognitively, but we can have all three of our perceiving mechanisms engaged, our sensing mechanisms engaged.
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And I sort of call this the genetic bingo theory of cancer. It's more formally called the somatic mutation theory. And it's this idea that cancers emerge when a cell has picked up enough genetic changes and the right genes.
He said, you know, I'm beginning to understand something about empathy from what you've written. So empathy is that experience of somatic emotional or affective resonance, as well as cognitive resonance with another. We can be somatically attuned, for example, and not being necessarily in resonance emotionally and cognitively, but we can have all three
What's the difference between the psychiatrist who's simply pushing more and more drugs and more and more palliatives on his client, but not And so there's a whole somatic piece around this.
Those are the somatic markers. And those emotional tones serve as somatic markers that guide you away.
one unit with a reproductive unit the sexual organs the reproducing organs oops the queen and the somatic or cell body that they need the somatic bodies of the super organism the cell it's the organs
I'm curious if you've investigated a relationship between your work on PTSD and other work, like van der Kolk's "The Body Keeps the Score," ideas of trauma being stored somatically, physically. No, I'm not familiar with that, but the name is very evocative.
that there was anxiety going on just allowing it to be there and then when i started investigating you know really in my body because is somatic it's like to feel it in our body i could feel the squeeze of of fear and knew it was this kind of fear of failure you know and then i
And so we're kind of like this weird somatic rabbit's foot.
Those are the somatic markers. So researchers devised a fascinating experiment to test the Somatic Marker Hypothesis.
And that particular cell that they create has the power to become any type of cell in a whole body, hair cells, skin cells, heart cells, liver cells, every type of cell there is. Somatic cells already know what their job is, and they can't do anything else. So the idea of somatic cell nuclear transfer is to trick a somatic cell into forgetting all the instructions necessary to be that type of cell,
And then this woman actually had 19,000 somatic mutations.
And I have a background in meditation and breathwork and spiritual psychology and somatic experiencing.
And as someone who's been working on herself and really diving into some somatic embodiment type of work, I'm starting to peek into more spiritual areas.
They might say, I do EMDR or somatic experiencing or schema.
But the emotion itself is in the flesh. So then, going back to the Somatic Marker Hypothesis-- remember it says, somatic , which means embodied-- Damasio says that the brain uses these emotional body sensations like the ones you were just feeling.
In my YouTube channel, I talk about what EMDR, somatic experiencing is.
And you talk-- I don't want to get too granular, but at the same time, I think this is really interesting-- you talk about two different types of edits that can be done with CRISPR, somatic cell edits and germline edits. Can you walk us through the primary difference between the two of those and the impact?
can happen in a top down way. And that's compassion. Being in affective resonance and somatic resonance
And as he got smaller, he had kind of what's called a somatic recall, or a cellular memory, if you've ever heard those terms.
So a writer and a neuroscientist that I really like, Antonio Damasio, calls his idea about how this works the "Somatic Marker Hypothesis," or SMH. To understand the SMH, you first have to understand that emotions are primarily somatic events. You know you're having an emotion because you're feeling it in your body.
and to revert into a state where it can actually, then, become every type of cell in a body and create a whole being. So the most famous, and the first, example of somatic cell nuclear transfer was an experiment in the mid-1990s that brought us Dolly the Sheep. Probably everybody's heard of this.
Put them next to each other, zap them with electricity, the membrane bursts, the nucleus here dumps into the cell. Zap it again, and the proteins in that egg somehow cause the genetic material from that somatic cell that's a bit stressed out to forget all the instructions and turn into the type of cell that can become everything in a particular animal.
system is everything else. You can take the peripheral and further subdivide it into autonomic and somatic nervous system. Autonomic measures stress, amongst other things, and the somatic
What is our motivation for any given action? The A of GRACE is attuning to oneself, to one's own subjectivity, to our somatic experience, to our emotional experience, and to the actual cognitive experience that we have before we attune to others.
And somewhere under the hood, our emotions are playing a key role in every single decision that we make. So a writer and a neuroscientist that I really like, Antonio Damasio, calls his idea about how this works the "Somatic Marker Hypothesis," or SMH. To understand the SMH, you first have to understand that emotions are primarily somatic events.
Let's clone a mammoth. Well, cloning is actually a specific scientific process, a specific type of work that's actually known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. So in our cells, we basically have two different kinds of cells, germ line cells, which are sperm and eggs, and somatic cells,
Well, cloning is actually a specific scientific process, a specific type of work that's actually known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. So in our cells, we basically have two different kinds of cells, germ line cells, which are sperm and eggs, and somatic cells, which are everything else.
And the change has been extraordinary to the point that now we have effective treatments for most things. than by enemy combatants, and the frequency of PTSD injuries is more than by any type of somatic injury.