From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 04:37:49 MDT
For my money, what was simultaneously the most exciting and depressing
part of the Dawn of the Neurohacking Revolution was the discovery that
the immune system contains specific instructions that prevent it from
regenerating neurons, and that the instructions can be disabled.
Exciting: You take a pill and your spinal cord regrows. That's not an
"advance", that's Star Trek. That's Dr. McCoy walking through the halls
of an Earth hospital in "STIV: The Voyage Home".
Depressing: If you try to regenerate neurons, you'll probably destroy
the programming - there's almost certainly a reason why the immune
system is deliberately refusing to repair neurons.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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