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I think the patient would spend the rest of their life in physical rehabilitation. They would have to train their brain to remap every muscle movement. Coordi
by dade_ 6y ago
I think the patient would spend the rest of their life in physical rehabilitation. They would have to train their brain to remap every muscle movement. Coordination would be a nightmare and a major fall risk (very common way to die in a hospital). Then there is the whole digestive system, it is hard to believe it runs completely independently, and if that isn’t working right, it would be a horrible death.
As fascinating as these ideas are, hopefully repairing a severed spinal cord will be a reality soon:
https://news.yale.edu/2021/02/22/yale-scientists-repair-injured-spinal-cords-using-patients-own-stem-cells https://news.yale.edu/2021/02/22/yale-scientists-repair-inju...
- gibbonsrcool 6y agoMaybe with the right technology you could map out each nerves function for both donor and patient before the procedure and match them up. I wouldn't be surprised if brains and nerves don't work as simply as an API though.
- ModernMech 6y agoYou see this all the time in robotics, where you can do a sort of “brain transplant” by taking the controller of one robot and installing it into another “identical” body. I use quotes here because there are enough differences in the physical machines that the transplanted controller will not perform as well without a significant recalibration effort.