ToadOfSteel wrote:
The brain is a highly adaptive organ (moreso than any other organ in the human body)... if part of the brain is damaged, other parts can, with time and training, pick up the slack. Perhaps neurons can be grown (stem-cell research anyone?) and then "grafted" onto the brain. The brain wouldn't be able to make use of it immediately, but eventually would take advantage of it, and would allow for new brain material to be made...
Kind of like upgrading your computer, you mean. Assuming there's room inside the brain for all this new brain material--(you couldn't kill the old cells without damaging your brain, could you?) But it also makes me wonder if it would take longer to think about things, if our thought processes would be more complex with all this extra information.
Notwithstanding the fact that if you were around forever, would you need to form new thoughts, or would it just be a case of constant deja-vu?
30 Apr 2008, 12:14 am
