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The cap would be a surgically bound equipment, with tubes inserted into
the brain, and a mesh of artificial blood vessels, which circulate blood
with neuro-trophic agent, to extend and grow neurons into the tubes,
eventually reaching a broad compartment in the above cap.
The compartment would
be modular and the tubes -- connectable
wirelessly over the sections of the tube, so that when it's filled, the
neurons can be attached to neural transponders at the sections of the
tubes, to continue interact with the rest of the brain, and the new tubes
can be drilled into the brain to continue the process with a new empty
compartment.
The expected result is, that eventually, the surrounding mobile mass of
the brain would constitute much larger than the original consciousness,
making it less painful to lose it.
I suppose, something readily doable, because it doesn't require deep
drilling into the brain. Probably reaching the surface of the brain would be
enough.
Yes, the brain is highly plastic
https://www.newscie...ain-shocks-doctors/
[MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 29 2018]
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Absolutely. For too long have we been restricted by the too-
slow-to-evolve cranial wall. Free the neurons from the
conscious overlord! |
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Yet another posting which fills me with trepanation. |
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That was actually a respectable pun, [2fries]. Virtual {+} for
the anno. |
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That's why I pay my writers the big bucks. |
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// Probably reaching the surface of the brain would be enough. // |
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You never know until you try ... you first. |
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Right... No try no buns. One more thing, I wonder, what is the plasticity
of neural tissue -- if the ever so slight vaccum is created in the cap, will
it, over a period of, say, a year, make the tissue leak into such cap? |
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Yes, it probably would. You could achieve the same result,
probably, by applying a slight overpressure to the brain's
ventricles. Of course, it would be very important to keep the
holes patent, otherwise the brain tissue would simply be
compressed into a thinner layer within the skull <link>. |
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