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How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by RecycledEle »

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.

That is in progress: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/24/japan/science-h...

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

goda90 wrote: post #8
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…

I imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to grow the right neurons to control it.

It doesn't work like that at all. Your brain's already plastic enough to be able to (quickly) accept new sensory input if you were given a new sense via prosthetic. Being able to twiddle your third thumb after it grows would be automatic.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by Gud »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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'm a massive Science Fiction buff and bought the game, played it for a few hours and decided it was not for me. I think it's because I couldn't relate to the factions, if that makes sense.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by baja_blast »

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…

This technology can also be used to turn cancerous cells into healthy cell Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g798Mck7dPk

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by trinsic2 »

nprateem wrote: post #84
cbg0 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chi and chakras are very well understood to not be science, so "pseudoscience" is a very accurate description.

"Science" is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena." Things investigated by science are not in themselves science. That doesn't make them pseudoscience.

Its funny how people use terms to confirm their own particular bias. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by shepherdjerred »

Gud wrote: post #94
shepherdjerred wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm a massive Science Fiction buff and bought the game, played it for a few hours and decided it was not for me. I think it's because I couldn't relate to the factions, if that makes sense.

I don't quite remember the factions, but I do remember that like most Civilization games, it was significantly better with the expansions

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by angra_mainyu »

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.

Are you the kind that would've scoffed and made the same condescending remarks when scientists proposed to study what buddhist monks were doing?

I for one am happy people actually took the time to investigate their practices, including fascinating things like "tummo". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo#Scientific_investigation

This extremely close-minded, arrogant, and disdainful attitude is utterly unscientific.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by futureamish »

cbg0 wrote: post #52
trinsic2 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OMG here we go with the marginalization term "Pseudoscience". Stereotyping things you don't understand doesn't make you a smart person.

Chi and chakras are very well understood to not be science, so "pseudoscience" is a very accurate description.

Protoscience or a mix of abductive and inductive reasoning should not be entirely dismissed because it is not yet deductible. Often the process of "knowing" and developing axiomatic systems comes from first unknowing and grasping, and that doesn't even get into the incompleteness of axiomatic systems. We are refiners, we refine; your diamonds come from the dirt and are the next diamond's dirt.
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