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Not really. You would need some training but as long as the limbs nerves are connected you can manipulate them.
by xwdv 3y ago
Not 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.
- galangalalgol 3y agoMale monkeys of some species are born colorblind. Researchers used viral gene therapy to add the other rhodopsin shapes for the other colors and they learned to process the new info in less than two weeks. Brains are amazingly plastic, but they are finite, something else would maybe have to go.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI don’t think that’s necessarily true. We have mirrored nerve bundles dedicated to limbs with specific junctioning in the CNS. I don’t think it’s just brain plasticity at play, it’s fundamental wiring structure from limb to brain as well.