3 ms·

Yeah i mean realistically just the port to “a tray in our stomachs” sounds like a nightmare. How do you make a port big enough to take the tray out? How do you

Yeah i mean realistically just the port to “a tray in our stomachs” sounds like a nightmare. How do you make a port big enough to take the tray out? How do you prevent it from always getting infected? What do you do with the core muscles where the tray port goes? How do you clean the pouch where the tray resides? How will you make the tray-escophagus interface leak proof? What if someone with the tray in their stomach wants to do sports, or is in an accident? When they are shocked around will the tray mechanism tear their flesh and organs? Will the tray accomodate body shape changes during a pregnancy? Or changes due to old age? How will people know that their tray is full? Will they just start choking? How big the tray has to be to accomodate a family meal, but also be small enough to not feel as a burden during everyday activities? The truth is that our body is marvelously complex, and dynamically adjusts to many challenges. It does this so seamlesly that we don’t even notice. That is why people come up with ridiculous ideas like this because they are not consciously aware of how amazing their body is at taking care of the job of keeping them alive. The closest to this tray idea in reality is an ileostomy. And while it is better than dying, it has many risks and negative consequences. The idea that otherwise healthy individuals would willingly under go such a modification to their bodies is ludicrous.

Rumudiez 2y ago
Look up colostomy bags. It’s not a lifestyle I think many people would choose on a whim
- epcoa 2y ago
  Not sure why you think someone mentioning an ileostomy would be unfamiliar with colostomy bags.
  - krisoft 2y ago
    Oh, i think Rumudiez meant it as a general recommendation to everyone who might be interested to learn more. Not specifically to me. Or at least that makes the most sense so i choose that interpretation. But yeah, there is a lot of stories about patients with bad outcomes with colostomy bags. It sure beats dying of course. As a general rule of thumb: every time you cut into a human there is a high chance of things going wrong. The more you are changing after you cut into them the more likely and more severe the sideffects will be. (Very rough approximation of course.) This is something i constantly think about cyborgs. They are a a staple of scifis, and usually portraied as stronger and faster than regular humans. But every cyborg with lets say a cybernetic arm would be medically an amputee. Every amputee can tell you that stumps suck. They get infected, or get pressure sores, or their skin gets irritated, etc etc unless you are treating them just right, and even then sometimes they hurt when you did everything right. How would you even grow metal and muscle/skin together without the meat constantly pulling away and getting infected? That is the real scifi not the brain-computer interface.

Rumudiez 2y ago

Look up colostomy bags. It’s not a lifestyle I think many people would choose on a whim

epcoa 2y ago
Not sure why you think someone mentioning an ileostomy would be unfamiliar with colostomy bags.
- krisoft 2y ago
  Oh, i think Rumudiez meant it as a general recommendation to everyone who might be interested to learn more. Not specifically to me. Or at least that makes the most sense so i choose that interpretation. But yeah, there is a lot of stories about patients with bad outcomes with colostomy bags. It sure beats dying of course. As a general rule of thumb: every time you cut into a human there is a high chance of things going wrong. The more you are changing after you cut into them the more likely and more severe the sideffects will be. (Very rough approximation of course.) This is something i constantly think about cyborgs. They are a a staple of scifis, and usually portraied as stronger and faster than regular humans. But every cyborg with lets say a cybernetic arm would be medically an amputee. Every amputee can tell you that stumps suck. They get infected, or get pressure sores, or their skin gets irritated, etc etc unless you are treating them just right, and even then sometimes they hurt when you did everything right. How would you even grow metal and muscle/skin together without the meat constantly pulling away and getting infected? That is the real scifi not the brain-computer interface.