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Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by Condition1952 »

shiroiuma wrote: post #56
Fezzik wrote: post #43

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Because there’s no immediate and clear plan for a return on the investment due to how speculative things are, private funding is scant. Because we (the USA) are spending most of our money on the insane military complex there is little extra public funding for actually beneficial R&D. Edit: grammar.

>Because we (the USA) are spending most of our money on the insane military complex there is little extra public funding for actually beneficial R&D This simply isn't true at all. The US doesn't spend that much money on the military compared to other countries. Go look at federal expenditures; most are for entitlements: social security, medicare, etc. As a percentage of GDP, US expenditure on the military is nothing…

The military budget both in absolute and relative terms is ludicrous.

The nations with a more irresponsible budget than the US are mostly state-terror organisations. Which doesn’t mean that the US isn’t one

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Post by devmor »

Auracle wrote: post #55
sva_ wrote: post #42

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So I wonder how much brain power (if any significant) is being taken up by the uterus during pregnancy.

Well, I don’t know if it’s the brain power or the gray matter pruning that goes on, but my wife was an absolute space cadet for a while during pregnancy and quite a while after. She’d forget almost everything.

I've read literature that the hormone fluctuations resulting from pregnancy, and from parenting regardless of sex actually trigger the destruction of particular parts of the brain in humans.

This is a long shot, but I've always wondered if it might be genetically related to the part of the brain responsible for "abandon one of the babies to escape predator" type reasoning that you see in animals with litters. Something that would have been selected out of human evolution fairly quickly.

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Post by nprateem »

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.

If you believe chi to be some kind of pseudoscience rather than something easily experienced you're in no position to tell us how it relates to what's being discussed here, as you demonstrate your ignorance.

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Post by niemandhier »

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

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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.

I once spend a ( drunken ) evening discussing with a neurosurgeon about the possibility to add a prosthetic tail to the human body.

The base structures to control a tail are present in our brain, sure we lost it a few million years ago but still a tail is much more realistic than e.g a second pair of arms.

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Post by joshxyz »

niemandhier wrote: post #64
keyle wrote: post #27

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

I once spend a ( drunken ) evening discussing with a neurosurgeon about the possibility to add a prosthetic tail to the human body. The base structures to control a tail are present in our brain, sure we lost it a few million years ago but still a tail is much more realistic than e.g a second pair of arms.

no more need for poles when tightrope walking!

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Post by ben_w »

WalterBright wrote: post #51
progne wrote: post #5

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…

Start with something simple and wonderful like growing a new set of teeth.

Indeed. I've been hearing about teeth being grown in vitro or regrown in vivo in various different trials for about 23 years now. Most recent is still saying "perhaps in ten years…"

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Post by robertlagrant »

WalterBright wrote: post #51
progne wrote: post #5

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…

Start with something simple and wonderful like growing a new set of teeth.

Let's hope they don't come through the way the current set does.

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Post by ben_w »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #47
anvandare wrote: post #9

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"Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination." - Civilization: Beyond Earth

If only they would make a sequel! I don't understand why that game was poorly received.

I think it was partly that you have to be quite well-read in sci-fi to know where the names for the tech, buildings, victory conditions etc. come from, so most people don't get an easy anchor to remember what benefits they're likely to get from their choices.

Probably also didn't help that the first version had a very anti-climactic victory sequence; they improved it, but I do remember it being jarringly sudden the first time I played.

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Post by [deleted] »

akomtu wrote: post #39
krapp wrote: post #35

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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…

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Post by ben_w »

lainga wrote: post #17
XorNot wrote: post #15

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Now there's a future society you don't see written about: a standard part of a marriage is the partners exchange immune-compatibilized gonads with their genetic material, so if one partner dies the other still retains the ability to grow viable off-spring from the pairing.

"Ma'am, I'm here to enforce the terms of the divorce agreement. I need you to take his gonads out of your purse and hand them over."

Now I'm thinking about that song about the man with a detachable penis who looses it.

https://youtu.be/byDiILrNbM4?si=oiR7pKrCkjXOnUqJ

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