- A 4 GB torrent-length documentary on transhumanist technologies was circulated; participants found it stylistically weak (especially a segment on “fashion”) but noted that Part 2 contains useful references and ends with the memorable claim that “615 MB on a CD-ROM is all you’d need to copy a person.”

- kanzure proposed abandoning explicit “constraint specification” for bio-protocol automation and instead starting with executable scripts derived directly from published lab protocols, then mutating them; user input would be reframed as daily-routine “recipes” or measured variables rather than abstract tags.

- Discussion surfaced the idea of crowdsourcing neuroinformatics data through a richer, non-text tagging interface—possibly leveraging a web-based Graphviz tool—to feed something conceptually labeled “Google Mouse” or “Google earthBrain.”

- IBM Almaden Institute 2006 agenda (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/2006/agenda.shtml) was shared as a source of relevant videos; specific speakers mentioned include Henry Markram, Gerald Edelman, Jeff Hawkins, V. S. Ramachandran, and Theodore Berger.

- kanzure posted a short story titled “Meme Trainers” (http://heybryan.org/docs/meme_trainers.html) exploring themes of cognitive enhancement and cultural evolution.