41–50 of 105 posts
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.
Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
Yeah, AFAIK Becker's "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" is pretty much all there was until Michael Levin came along and picked up the torch. IMO it's one of those weird "holes": why so little interest in human tissue regeneration?
Edit: grammar.
There's a fascinating (in my opinion) TED talk about this featuring the same Biologist, with examples of regenerative experiments performed using Flatworms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c
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 have seen several podcasts with Michael Levin now and it is really brilliant work he and his team are doing. For what it's worth he also comes across as a really nice guy.
This technology doesn't seem to be limited to existing limbs and organs. After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. A man could grow a uterus since he has the X chromosomes and with a transplant that includes Y chromosomes, a woman could grow testes. Parthenogenesis could become a choice. Another head seems possible. The limits are more likely to come from regulation than a reluctance of people to trans…
"Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination." - Civilization: Beyond Earth
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.
This technology doesn't seem to be limited to existing limbs and organs. After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. A man could grow a uterus since he has the X chromosomes and with a transplant that includes Y chromosomes, a woman could grow testes. Parthenogenesis could become a choice. Another head seems possible. The limits are more likely to come from regulation than a reluctance of people to trans…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…