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Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by xwdv »

keyle wrote: post #27
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro

This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.

Not really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by jodrellblank »

koolba wrote: post #29
keyle wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.

Obviously we can grow an extra brain that will operate the extra limbs.

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel look fairly normal apart from the two heads, but are really one-armed amputees each (but they were born with four arms and two heads): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN2sauvEb0

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by Terr_ »

xwdv wrote: post #31
keyle wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.

Not really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.

I think that's wildly over-optimistic: We have plenty of problems with existing limbs when it comes to fixing nerve-damage and then re-training everything. That's also with the advantage of decades of active prior use and in places/amounts that are supported by ten millions years of evolved physiological prep.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by krapp »

nprateem wrote: post #34

So now the scientific community accepts chi. About time. The reality of bioenergy is obvious to anyone who's practiced chi kung or experienced their chakras.

No. What's being discussed here has nothing to do with the pseudoscience of chi or chakras.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by xwdv »

Terr_ wrote: post #33
xwdv wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.

I think that's wildly over-optimistic: We have plenty of problems with existing limbs when it comes to fixing nerve-damage and then re-training everything. That's also with the advantage of decades of active prior use and in places/amounts that are supported by ten millions years of evolved physiological prep.

Babies do it.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by galangalalgol »

Terr_ wrote: post #33
xwdv wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.

I think that's wildly over-optimistic: We have plenty of problems with existing limbs when it comes to fixing nerve-damage and then re-training everything. That's also with the advantage of decades of active prior use and in places/amounts that are supported by ten millions years of evolved physiological prep.

Male monkeys of some species are born colorblind. Researchers used viral gene therapy to add the other rhodopsin shapes for the other colors and they learned to process the new info in less than two weeks. Brains are amazingly plastic, but they are finite, something else would maybe have to go.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by akomtu »

krapp wrote: post #35
nprateem wrote: post #34

So now the scientific community accepts chi. About time. The reality of bioenergy is obvious to anyone who's practiced chi kung or experienced their chakras.

No. What's being discussed here has nothing to do with the pseudoscience of chi or chakras.

We're seeing how the west is discovering those "chakras" and unlike the east, where the understanding of this topic is very broad and fuzzy, due to lack of experience in most cases, the west will develop a very narrow, but very sharp knowledge. Pair that with the thick dark cloud of nihilism enveloping the west today, and it's not hard to see where this will end up. Levin seems to have discovered what the east calls "etheric double" - a sort of living blueprint that guides the construction of any organic lifeform. That blueprint is of magnetic nature, and although it's not quite the same thing that flows in our copper wires, it easily interacts with the type of magnets at our disposal. From this point the discovery of inflow and outflow sinks of that "bioelectricity" is near.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by Root_Denied »

keyle wrote: post #27
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro

This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.

The problem isn't (just) the brain power, the shoulder joint is also a necessary component of the full range of motion and degrees of freedom your arm has. You can't just slot a ball and socket somewhere into the side of your ribs (and all the supporting musculature) and have it work the same way.
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