Comments on: Implantable brain chip shows promise for the paralyzed http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/10/31/implantable-brain-chip-shows-promise-for-the-paralyzed/ General interest observations and true web-log. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Billabong http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/10/31/implantable-brain-chip-shows-promise-for-the-paralyzed/comment-page-1/#comment-350992 Billabong Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:31:00 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7811#comment-350992 We are just a few years from being connected to computers that will allow us to do things we only dream of today. We are just a few years from being connected to computers that will allow us to do things we only dream of today.

]]> By: Mike http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/10/31/implantable-brain-chip-shows-promise-for-the-paralyzed/comment-page-1/#comment-349949 Mike Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:59:46 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7811#comment-349949 Cyberchild? A great book! Cyberchild? A great book!

]]> By: TJGeezer http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/10/31/implantable-brain-chip-shows-promise-for-the-paralyzed/comment-page-1/#comment-349722 TJGeezer Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:52:19 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7811#comment-349722 "strengthening weak connections" and rerouting connections around damage - that has been key to different kinds of physical therapy for a long time, but I haven't seen the idea supported by hard physical data before. Fascinating stuff. Incidentally, one criticism of your "Cyberchild" book at Amazon was that it is unrealistic about the ethical problems of animal experimentation. Yet here we have solid and very promising, potential misery-reducing medical results from years of study into how the brains of monkeys control limb movement. Somebody tell the vegans nothing's ever that simple. “strengthening weak connections” and rerouting connections around damage – that has been key to different kinds of physical therapy for a long time, but I haven’t seen the idea supported by hard physical data before. Fascinating stuff.

Incidentally, one criticism of your “Cyberchild” book at Amazon was that it is unrealistic about the ethical problems of animal experimentation. Yet here we have solid and very promising, potential misery-reducing medical results from years of study into how the brains of monkeys control limb movement. Somebody tell the vegans nothing’s ever that simple.

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