From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 06:19:54 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> 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.
The trick is of course to make the change local. Which is of course
one of those horrible medical implementation issues, but might be
solvable. Because neurons are also reasonably good at reorganizing
themselves, so while you might loose a bit of the original
connectivity of the broken spinal cord you get something
comparable. Much worse with the cortex, of course.
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