Sapphyre Miria's ACCHS Biophysics 2018 Blog

1. Would you support the development of a "bionic" person? I am not certain what is meant with this question... I could take it two ways. Bionic person could mean a robot, Artificial Intelligence, in which case I am absolutely against this technology. I feel like we seem to be unable to grasp the lesson that there are always negative, unintended consequences to our newly adopted technologies and the potential negative consequences of AI seem to outweigh any positives. For example: I can see the potential outcome being AI that becomes more intelligent than humans and take us over, subjugating us en masse.       On the other hand, if I take this question to mean a human who has more than one bionic limb, I am not necessarily opposed to this reality. I still feel skeptical to the technology and feel that it is a waste of our human ingenuity and earthly resources to dive down this technological rabbit hole. Then again, who am I to deny someone accessibility? 2. Would your...

1. While I had intellectually decided that Acupuncture was a viable modality of healing, I hadn't quite had the felt experience prior to deciding to enroll in acupuncture school here at ACCHS. I think that I still had some part of me that was very skeptical and unsure as to how or why the medicine worked. This changed about a month ago for me.       I have been having a pretty hard summer adjusting to living in a radically different place than what I was accustomed to back in Virginia in combination with missing my family and friends. I decided to give acupuncture a try and made an appointment. Wow! I felt stuff move that I am pretty sure had been energetically stuck in my body since I was a child. Whatever doubt or skepticism I may have had has been cleared out. I don't need to know in a reductive way how it works now that I have had the felt experience of it working. 2. I am still skeptical of Kirlian photography. On one hand, when I suspend that skepticism and beli...