[extropy-chat] Neural Internet:Web Surfing with Brain Potentials

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Keith Henson wrote:

> Probably.  But in the slightly longer range, people will look back on this 
> time with wonder because the underlying biological problems will be repairable.

There are some dormant regeneration tricks hidden in our genome which can
be reactivated, and similiar applies to external means (stem cells & Co).

But anything beyond that, and I have a hunch it may require that, to mend
e.g. a severed spinal cord would need nanosurgery, and if you can do that,
you might want do a lot more than just repair. Isofunctional substitution
(aka incremental or gradual in situ uploading) is within touching distance
then.

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