If they develop superior prosthetics, would you amputate your biological limbs?
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In a heartbeat, the dreams of becoming a super hero would be within the realm of possibility afterwards, or at least in my mind they would.
I would, but then again I have arthritis in my ankle and elbow, and suffer from severe Haemophilia A, so the less biological limbs I have the less all that crap affects me.
If we could hardwire, that would be brilliant. I'm still looking at if I can get an internship or something to know more about the exact functions.Eventidal said:Uh... as someone trying to engineer this stuff, you should know that it can't be hacked if it's just hardwired to the main controls. (ie. your brain tells your arms what to do, and nothing more.)
Not to mention, the phone in my arm would connect to wireless, NOT my brain or prosthetics. There would be a mic somewhere in my throat or something and a built-in speaker in my ear. In any case, my arm would likely still be my arm, just with the added bioelectronics, so there's nothing to hack there.
As I understand it so far it's never a 1:1 relationship, it's many to many. Whole families of cells in the brain for a single "muscle", and not all of them spike at the same time nor with the same amount.
Now you either need a way of processing that or a way to compensate.
With a fully organic arm just boosted THAT wouldn't be a problem, but crushing your bone to splinters or obliterating your tissue might be (the human body wasn't designed for extreme forces).
As for purely mechanicsl - yes in general if you keep the systems separate there shouldn't be any interference, I'm just saying about if you had a direct link in to the arm system (for updating it or centralising control or something, cheaper if you have one strong chip I guess).
What I'm still more worried about though is actually POWERING the arm. I've not heard anything on that topic. Especially if we're going for futuristically-bionic-strong, it's going to need some workhorse of a motor and a way to power it :/
Another thing I've really wanted to consider is the feedback for the touch (and possibly pain due to the stress on the motor - you don't want to break it) systems.
Again most of this stuff if you have a theory, great. BUT. How do you implement them? An arm needs to be able to move, so maybe have fixed transmission lines within the arms, then flexy cables at joints (a vulnerability)?
It would still probably be more difficult to attack that than the human portion of the body, but I'm not saying it's impossible. I guess I'm just thinking a bit too far ahead and reading too much in to it.
Sorry if I went on a bit of a mad-scientist rant there. Sometimes I tell myself that I like this stuff a little too much.
Yes, but maybe I'm looking at it from a different angle. I have a crappy leg that doesn't work, for me it would'nt be a case of replacing a perfectly good limb it's a case of replacing something that doesn't work.Jake Martinez said:
Let's face it who'd keep hold of a 360 if it had red ring'd itself to death?!?!
I suppose that's the point - assuming that some day doctors could replace any limb with one that isn't just the same, but far superior, maybe even "super powered", could someone stomach chopping off their healthy limbs just to have artificial, but potentially super limbs.putowtin said:
Too creepy for some people I think... not for me.
I would. My right arm being mechanical would look epic. Also it opens a route into science(I could put my arm into places other arms would be burnt) and I could also become a super villain. Where do I sign up?
Im quite fond of the limbs i have at the moment, plus the feeling of touch could never accurately transform to an artificial limb. Not to mention phantom pains, and well my girlfriend would probably be freaked out with me holding her with a plastic/metal arm, as opposed to the warm, flesh one im very fond of now
If they were actually better than the limbs I have right now in every way? Sure. In a heartbeat, really. I'm not so attached to this meatsack I inhabit that I'd be unwilling to upgrade.
Still, that's a loooooong way off. It's not likely to be a concern while I still have healthy parts at all. Sure we're getting near the point where very expensive, very specialized artificial limbs might soon be slightly better than the default ones at one very specific task, but they tend not to last very long, and they certainly can't do things like, say for instance, healing. That one's pretty important to me.
The human body is far from perfect, but it's still a pretty damn impressive self-repairing, self-maintaining general purpose sack of chemistry that was accidentally stumbled into backwards. When it comes time to transplant my brain into my new cyborg body I shall remember my meatsack fondly.
Still, that's a loooooong way off. It's not likely to be a concern while I still have healthy parts at all. Sure we're getting near the point where very expensive, very specialized artificial limbs might soon be slightly better than the default ones at one very specific task, but they tend not to last very long, and they certainly can't do things like, say for instance, healing. That one's pretty important to me.
The human body is far from perfect, but it's still a pretty damn impressive self-repairing, self-maintaining general purpose sack of chemistry that was accidentally stumbled into backwards. When it comes time to transplant my brain into my new cyborg body I shall remember my meatsack fondly.
I rather have nano-enhancing bots that improve the condition of my current biological body.
Higher strength, speed, faster thought process, no diseases and more! This would also repair any damaged my body would suffer (broken bones, flesh and so on) even making my cells not die so they won't make me old. The nano bots would run on my own biological power, just like my body.
One can only dream... Come on Japan, I know you can do it! =P
Higher strength, speed, faster thought process, no diseases and more! This would also repair any damaged my body would suffer (broken bones, flesh and so on) even making my cells not die so they won't make me old. The nano bots would run on my own biological power, just like my body.
One can only dream... Come on Japan, I know you can do it! =P
