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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 sinc
by progne 3y ago
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 transform themselves.
- baja_blast 3y agoThis technology can also be used to turn cancerous cells into healthy cell Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g798Mck7dPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g798Mck7dPk
- goda90 3y agoI imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to grow the right neurons to control it.
- progne 3y agoPlus extensive musculature at the new shoulder joint and reinforced bones for the new muscle attachments. I won't be first in line.
- nerdbert 3y agoI get the sense that if it's connected, your brain will figure out how to make it work.
- fpiacenza 3y agoThe curious thing about Michael Levin's work is that they figured out "top level abstractions" in bioelectricity that tell the body to figure out everything, including the proper wiring. The have grown eyes in the wrong places that figure out how to connect to the brain, and even two heads. These guys are decoding the actual bioelectrical code that governs morphogenesis, in a way that you don't need to micromanage anything, you just say "grow an eye" and the cells figure out the rest.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoIt 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.
- anvandare 3y ago"Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination." - Civilization: Beyond Earth
- shepherdjerred 3y agoIf only they would make a sequel! I don't understand why that game was poorly received.
- Gud 3y agoI'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.
- shepherdjerred 3y agoI don't quite remember the factions, but I do remember that like most Civilization games, it was significantly better with the expansions
- hydrok9 3y agohighly dumbed down compared to the base game
- ben_w 3y agoI think it was partly that you have to be quite well-read in sci-fi to know where the names for the tech, buildings, victory conditions etc. come from, so most people don't get an easy anchor to remember what benefits they're likely to get from their choices. Probably also didn't help that the first version had a very anti-climactic victory sequence; they improved it, but I do remember it being jarringly sudden the first time I played.
- aussieguy1234 3y agoSo, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
- keyle 3y agoThis implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
- koolba 3y agoObviously we can grow an extra brain that will operate the extra limbs.
- jodrellblank 3y agoConjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel look fairly normal apart from the two heads, but are really one-armed amputees each (but they were born with four arms and two heads): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN2sauvEb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN2sauvEb0
- xwdv 3y agoNot really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.
- Terr_ 3y agoI think that's wildly over-optimistic: We have plenty of problems with existing limbs when it comes to fixing nerve-damage and then re-training everything. That's also with the advantage of decades of active prior use and in places/amounts that are supported by ten millions years of evolved physiological prep.
- xwdv 3y agoBabies do it.
- XorNot 3y agoNow there's a future society you don't see written about: a standard part of a marriage is the partners exchange immune-compatibilized gonads with their genetic material, so if one partner dies the other still retains the ability to grow viable off-spring from the pairing.
- lainga 3y ago"Ma'am, I'm here to enforce the terms of the divorce agreement. I need you to take his gonads out of your purse and hand them over."
- XorNot 3y agoI mean I imagined it would be like, having them surgically implanted somewhere near the kidney's (large blood supply organ). Which would make this scenario far more cyberpunk.
- jvm___ 3y agoNuts!
- ben_w 3y agoNow I'm thinking about that song about the man with a detachable penis who looses it. https://youtu.be/byDiILrNbM4?si=oiR7pKrCkjXOnUqJ https://youtu.be/byDiILrNbM4?si=oiR7pKrCkjXOnUqJ
- selcuka 3y agoIsn't this already possible by freezing eggs or sperms?
- selcuka 3y ago> After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. But it would cost you an arm and a leg. At least initially.
- ourmandave 3y agoPlus a costs of custom tailoring.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoOne sex could decide it no longer wants to deal with anyone not of their sex and wipe them out. Humanity could go on with the artificially created sex organs. Lots of possibilities, not all of them the fun, wild and crazy anything goes utopia some are looking for.
- WalterBright 3y agoStart with something simple and wonderful like growing a new set of teeth.
- ktosobcy 3y agoTo be honest I would prefer something non-trivil like fixing broken spinal-column disks ;-)
- ben_w 3y agoIndeed. I've been hearing about teeth being grown in vitro or regrown in vivo in various different trials for about 23 years now. Most recent is still saying "perhaps in ten years…"
- robertlagrant 3y agoLet's hope they don't come through the way the current set does.
- ponderings 3y agoSomething simple like elongated heads
- RajT88 3y agoPair that with a caries vaccine and now we're talking. Getting a new pair of chompers in middle age would be super great, especially if they won't decay the same way.
- RecycledEle 3y agoThat is in progress: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/24/japan/science-health/japan-pharma-grows-new-teeth/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/24/japan/science-h...