G. Stolyarov II's video: U S Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Logan Thrasher Collins June 18 2023

On Sunday, June 18, 2023, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Logan Thrasher Collins to discuss his polymathic forays into such fields of endeavor as connectomics and whole-brain emulation, genetic therapy and synthetic biology, and science fiction and the perspective of rational romanticism. Logan Thrasher Collins aims to make science fiction into reality. He is a futurist, synthetic biologist, author, and innovator, as well as a 2023 Foresight Fellow. He is also a prolific science-fiction author and poet. When he was 16, he invented a new antimicrobial protein, OpaL (Overexpressed protein aggregator Lipophilic). He next developed a bacterial conjugation delivery system for the gene encoding OpaL. His synthetic biology research has been published as a first-author journal article in ACS Biochemistry: “Design of a De Novo Aggregating Antimicrobial Peptide and a Bacterial Conjugation-Based Delivery System” - https://logancollinsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/design-of-a-de-novo-aggregating-antimicrobial-peptide-and-a-bacterial-conjugation-based-delivery-system-2018.pdf. He is currently a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. *** Timestamps 2:28 - Logan Thrasher Collins’s introduction 25:30 - Remarks about Logan's gene-therapy research 31:58 - Remarks about connectomics 55:42 - Synchrotron questions 1:02:01 - How expansion microscopy could potentially be used without destroying the tissue examined 1:08:18 - How likely Logan perceives being able to escape death indefinitely by 2045 1:13:24 - Other possibilities for being able to get sufficiently detailed brain images for mind uploading 1:18:37 - Cryonics and biostasis 1:22:33 - What might be lost in mind uploading 1:31:23 - How to accelerate tech timelines 1:41:43 - “Rational Romanticism” and how science fiction could excite people to society’s future 1:50:55 - Might we have to worry about genetically targeted bioweapons? 1:53:41 - Logan Thrasher Collins’s conclusion *** Visit Logan Thrasher Collins’s website at https://logancollinsblog.com/. Read Logan Thrasher Collins’s article, “Rational Romanticism” (2017) - https://logancollinsblog.com/2017/11/30/rational-romanticism/. Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership.