4 ms·
Why? Your skin is porous and your body is primarily made of water. Why couldn’t you send directed electrical pulses to mimic the behavior of pharmaceuticals?
by 0x8BADF00D 8y ago
Why? Your skin is porous and your body is primarily made of water. Why couldn’t you send directed electrical pulses to mimic the behavior of pharmaceuticals?
- GW150914 8y agoThe short answers are “complexity” and “targeting” essentially. How do you stimulate or inhibit what you want to target and only what you target, especially when as you point out we’re bags of mostly water? Looking at something like stimulating a specific region of the brain, how do you keep yourself from imaverdently stimulating neighboring neurons? Not only that, but far more isn’t understood about the exact functioning of the brain than what is known. Barring luck, it seems reasonable to expect that comprehension of the system needs to precede fine control over it.