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When can I inject this and fix my stroke? Hurry please. :)
by eyeball 8y ago
When can I inject this and fix my stroke? Hurry please. :)
- steelframe 8y agoI'd caution against randomly re-wiring chunks of your CNS. There's probably a very good reason why we don't naturally do that.
- tormeh 8y agoDepends. Could be good long term, I suppose, but might require a long hospital visit even in the case of a good outcome. Enough for evolution to prune it.
- zupa-hu 8y agoI'd caution against randomly flying across cities. There's probably a very good reason why we don't naturally do that. Just pointing out that this is a weak argument.
- jfoutz 8y agoYou might wait for a few flights over an empty field first though.
- kakarot 8y agoMany people were injured or killed trying to invent flying machines until we finally got it right.
- grogenaut 8y agoMany many people have already died of brains issues. On the order of 5% of everyone who has lived ever. Esp in the last 2 centuries which from some counts is more than ever lived before. Your simile would be apt if people not getting to the other side of the city were dying or having greatly decreased quality of life (alzheimers, stroke).
- a11595 8y agoWhy argue with the guy? Logic will not win an argument with someone like that. He is literally saying if the body isn't doing it already, we shouldn't do it - he is saying medicine is a bad idea. This is the opposite of a Christian nut, although just as uneducated on evolution. He thinks it's a guided process that comes with a perfect being, not something that ends up with the highest population.
- mcbutterbunz 8y ago> he is saying medicine is a bad idea When did he say that? I don't want to put words in his mouth but I would guess more research needs to be done to ensure there are no side effects or unintended consequences... similar to what is done when medicine is developed.
- a11595 8y agothat is literally the only thing he said in his post. no one is randomly doing that in medicine - that's what nature does, and it's called evolution. he claims literally the opposite. what no one is saying is "no research should be done." the treatment being talked about falls in the medicine category. he is cautioning against it because the body doesn't do that already. let me rephrase that: I caution against the use of cephalexin when your appendix bursts. if it was safe, the body would produce its own antibiotics. I caution against neuron regeneration when your nerves are damaged. If it was safe, the body would regenerate its own nerves. I caution against taking daily finasteride. If it was safe to not have ass cancer, your body wouldn't have ass cancer. thankfully in evolution, bald people don't reproduce as much, so someone bald and with ass-cancer won't pass on his opinions to the world as long as these awesome scientists.
- eyeball 8y agoThe chunk I’m worried about probably can’t get much worse (it’s dead).
- kijin 8y agoIf the rest of your system has adapted to assume that a certain address space is non-executable, suddenly making it executable might cause a bit of a headache.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIf it's adapted once surely it can adapt again?
- harshreality 8y agoThings like strokes or cumulative CNS damage primarily affect older people, so genetic fixes to those problems would have very little evolutionary selection pressure on their side. It's also possible that genetic/biological means of turning on CNS regeneration in higher mammals would require a complexity that has not had time to evolve yet. Just because we evolved to the point of human-level intelligence doesn't mean we are perfectly evolved by any stretch of the imagination. It means we are, in a sense, a minimum viable biological entity that can acquire our level of intelligence.
- enknamel 8y agoI remember reading an article on neuroplasticity into old age. And people with extremely high neuroplasticity had better cognitive function throughout their lives however were much more likely to have dementia in old age. It's probably similar I'd guess.
- adrianN 8y agoMedicine is all about doing things that we don't do naturally. If we did it naturally we wouldn't need doctors.
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- EamonnMR 8y agoUnfortunately generating additional neurons and rewiring neurons to replace brain chunks may be separate problems.
- mattdeboard 8y agoThis seems like a pretty sick burn but I am not a neurologist
- raslah 8y agoPretty sure it wasn't, but it struck me that way also XD.
- jtl999 8y agoHurry up and fix my optic nerve too while you're at it :)
- msie 8y agoGiven how lame medical research is, don’t expect any therapies for at least 10 years.