Strange structures in the Depopulation elixir could be Oscar 2.0?

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After years of research and prototyping using cells from his own body, Vlasmen and his team of biohackers succeeded to create an independently living creature. Under Vlasmen's leadership, his team has managed to build the world's first living organism, called Oscar. Oscar is, as you can see here, as large as the hand of an adult male human and consists of modules. These modules are clickable organs made of cultured and printed human cells. The process that precedes this organism was an astonishing step in the field of bioengineering. What you see here comes down to this. Life itself can be seen as a closed system, but it can also be approached as a modular system that can lead to innovative applications and solutions. You want me to explain this a little bit more? Sure. In a closed system, parts are designed only to function in a composition. When the system requires repair and adjustments, back can be a complicated deal. The connector, also called the life safe, consists of a base plate, blood connection tubes, and a signal plug. The base plate holds everything together and gives strength to the connection. The blood connection tubes transfer oxygen-richened oxygen for blood between modules. The signal plug houses two important functions. One, it connects the EOS membrane and two. It's housing a magnet that can establish a strong connection between the connected modules. We're looking at Oskar, the first human modular prototype that is able to live in various setups. What's going to happen is that I'm going to connect the brain to the heart modules to activate the blood circulation. Now, the lung is going to start breathing. You can see both organs are now collaborating. I can add a kidney module. And if I add a limb module, I start actually taking the organism to move. Now, I'm looking for the optimal temperature, which is 37 degrees. If I add another limb, Oskar will recognize it and benefit from new possibilities. Oskar can be assembled in many different configurations. This is why it needs a variable blood circuit, which means that blood can continue its cycle whenever modules are attached or detached. So, for example, if you want a formation like this, or like this, then the blood circulation and pressure need to adapt. Each module has various in-and-output connectors. The cycle starts when the heart module pumps blood to its own output connectors. If a lung will be attached to one of these outputs, it will oxygenate the blood from the heart module and send out this oxygen-rich blood to the other connected modules. Those modules use the oxygen and nutrients and return the deoxygenated blood to the heart and the cycle can start again. I'm going to add a brain spiff here and a project-osperate, an independent lab for biotech. The mission is to create a prototype of a modular organism of human cells to build a community to achieve this goal. And the lab is open to anyone and everyone who's interested. In the lab, there's a lab sink, negative 28-greaser, PCR machines, micro-puppets, sterile hoods, self-built 3D bio-pinders, single and microchannel microscopes, micro-centrifuges, several bio-reactors and incubators, nitrogen barrels, common lab supplies such as test tubes, micro-puppet tips, board textures, ultrasonic bath, water baths, shaker, budget-osperate well-equipped, thank you sponsorship with lab supply companies such as Bowman-Denas. It's a project-osperate located in the west coast of Netherlands. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. 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If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. If you're interested to find out more, connect to their Facebook page. Oscar's brain controls an enormous amount of functions. When in motion, a simple way to decide target locations on level ground is to make the movement of the limb twice to decide motion in one step. But this method turned out to generate unnatural and inefficient applications in many cases. So, I ended up with a method that calculates footstep landing positions relative to the tail end of the supporting limb, given the desired body movement. Thank you. This is all controlled by the brain board. This is the brain board. The most important component on the brain board is the neural network chip. Here is a detailed view. It consists of a thousand and twenty-four neurons interconnected and all working in parallel. Now, right now, we're not using it to its full potential. But when we have connected the image recognition device, and we can start teaching Oscar to make a difference between objects, shapes, colors. This is a chair. This is a child. This is a brown dog. We'll do the same with the audio. A microphone connected to Oscar, then we'll allow us to teach him to make a difference between voice, bird song, dog barking. Basically, it all comes down to teaching Oscar. Just like you would teach a child. For this, we'll use the principle of deep learning that are currently developed for artificial intelligence purpose. In its essence, the principle is very simple. It's to attribute every item that we want Oscar to recognize into a category and then go to the further layer, the next layer of category. For example, this is a face, but this is conelus face. This is a voice. This is an ingroup voice. This is a pressure feeling and that is a finger poking you. And it's... I hope I am not by anyone. It's a tasteful layer. Thank you very much for your time. Oh, yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your time. I think you also have the modules on board that can be used to start with a file protocol. You can also use the central process, or just... or just add data in the text of the module. And then you do the module further down. Or you don't have to go through it. It's so efficient. Right ventricle. Left atrium. And left ventricle. The heart's right side receives low oxygen blood from the connected modular organs. The heart's left side receives this oxygen-rich blood from the lung module. Then it pumps the blood through the aorta back to the rest of the connected modules. While blood is circulating through the organs, it delivers oxygen and nutrients to tissue through the capillaries, and at the same time picks up carbon dioxide and other waste materials. The veins return the deoxygenated blood to the right atrium and the cycle begins again. Up, up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. Up, up. The human body is a biological device, an outdated device. If diseased there's usually one organ spreading the problem. The rest is working fine, but gets needlessly affected. Every day, millions of people suffer from dysfunction in body parts, because they get infected, or decayed. Simply because the human body is a closed system, not evolved to last. Already, quite some institutes are printing organs with human cells. They all focus on creating identical copies to use as spare parts. We want to use this opportunity not to maintain, but to redefine mankind. So this is a new kind of body, an open system printed with human cells in our own independent lab. A pocket-sized living prototype made with detachable modules. They're all connected to the brain. Bloodstream and nerve signals are transferred throughout the connectors, and simple junctions keep everything linked. If an organ gets ill, you can easily replace it with a new one. For example, if your body needs an extra arm, you can just upgrade the body with an extra limb module. Another great thing about this is the modular body will become alterable and adaptable to all kinds of situations. We call it Oscar. This man just put together many of your pieces of an organic body based off of a human system that came to life when connected. The modular body is the fucking play built your own organism. The body parts are created using glassware own genes but made by using a bioprene. It's not a psychological story about the reasons why a person wants to make life. It's a story about the deeper background of why our scientists working on this kind of technologies and what they want to achieve with that. It's a science fiction story, it's not through yet, but the interesting of the whole project is that it sort of touches the reality. Oscar is a modular prototype built up with human cells and created in an independent lab in the Netherlands. At least that's a story of the modular body. We're looking at Oscar, the first human modular prototype that is able to live in various setups. I was going to happen that I'm going to connect the brain to the heart module to activate the blood circulation. I thought if we can print organs, would we print them in the same way as if we already have them in the body? Would we use this opportunity to design a complete new human body? For example, what if you have a heart and a lung and some limbs and you can connect them in all sorts different ways? If there is a malfunction in the heart, it would be very easy to replace it by just clicking in another module. Besides this would create an immortal system and it would also create a completely new idea of the body. These two elements were the main fascinations for the modular body project. I can add a kidney module. And if I had a limb module, it starts actually creating that organism to move. Now it's looking for the optimum temperature, which is 37 degrees. The design choices I made within Oscar, I thought there should be multiple connectors, which all the modules can be connected to. But it should also look like it's real. That's why I decided to make the skin transparent. If you would create a skin in a laboratory, it would not be like the skin we have. In the first phase it would be very transparent and maybe later on it would evolve into a more solid tissue piece. I think you can tell a story like this in a linear way, but it was much more interesting to create a database with all sorts of video fragments, which tells something about how Oscar was made and what the process was of thinking and creating Oscar, which is more a way of telling science facts instead of science fiction. So the modular body is designed not as a very classic transmedia story. The modular body is mainly a beautiful designed interactive web page where you can go through the back story of Cornelis Flasman and the creation of Oscar. It's interesting to see if the story is fragmented, what it will do on these different web channels. So YouTube, we did Facebook, we do fine at Twitter. Normally I try to avoid making websites and so our usual work is also more physical, more installations. And with the modular body it felt like we make an installation in the web. The idea of this story path came pretty early in the process because it was clear that we have these fragmented videos. The narrative is different for everybody who visits the website. And we wanted to make this clear also to the user and to give an overview of what you see already, how did you see it, and also what is your narrative, because it's different for everybody. And we will be punished in all these narratives to the punishment. But what I think is good about Oscar, that he helps us demystifying what life is. Maybe he can make us more modest, so we stop thinking about being God but just being human beings, playing around with the cells. All the scientists who were in the talk show react as if Oscar was real, as if the whole project was a real thing, which was for them not so difficult because they could relate to it. They thought, well, this is not possible but it could be possible. And that's I think why the public who sees Oscar a wine, you see it on the Facebook pages, you see it in groups, a lot of people react as if Oscar is real. It's probably one of the creepiest things I've seen in a while. It's fucking creepy and scary. He even claims he used his own cells to create Oscar to void legal issues. The modularbody.com has about 600,000 views by now. Besides the numbers, we're not very interested in numbers. It's more about the conversations, the questions people ask ourselves. So we're still counting how many conversations are going.