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I never thought I was a bio person. But then I overheard Viv talking about MAOIs at a party. I asked her: Viv had the most important trait of a teacher: patience. I asked the most naive questions and they answered them. They walked with me, all the way down to the very beginning, rebuilding my understanding. It was amazing. I wanted to know more. Roadblock: finding lifeforms to study. I wondered if non-medical students could watch dissections. You can’t get more information about an object than by directly interacting with it. The concrete world contains the abstract one. I even asked my doctor at a physical if she knew of any, and she said to look at community colleges. After some searching, I found this: Bio 848NV. Forget viewing the dissection, you’re doing the dissection. 5 hour dissection for $60, free if you just watch. The only bureaucratic hangup is that you must pay by check. This is why I love the Bay Area: there’s stuff like this and you can just do it. yes it’s weird no the

x What it's like to dissect a cadaver — LessWrong Curiosity Health / Medicine / Disease Biology Scholarship & Learning World Modeling Curated 213 What it's like to dissect a cadaver by Alok Singh 10th Nov 2022 6 min read 25 213 Why I never thought I was a bio person. But then I overheard Viv talking about MAOIs at a party. I asked her: > - What are MAOIs? > - monoamine oxidase inhibitor > - What does that mean? > - It prevents reuptake of neurotransmitters. > - But what *is* a neurotransmitter? What does reuptake actually mean? > - ... > - So life uses chiral properties of space to implement t

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