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Literature-South t1_ismlxun wrote

Reply to comment by coffeeandtrout in In a novel experiment, brain-like human tissue implanted in rat brains influenced the rodents' behavior by le75

If they can inject a rat brain with human brain cells and it assimilates, especially in an already developed rat brain, imagine what it could do for people. Inject brain matter to make yourself smarter? Maybe, but probably not? Inject brain matter into the brains of those with a traumatic brain injury or who are otherwise "brain dead"? Might bring people back from the dead. Who knows until we try it?

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Hobojo153 t1_ismr73h wrote

Point of view gun.

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makemenutraloaf t1_ismt8b3 wrote

I always wondered what would happen if you shot yourself with it

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_isnwkyi wrote

Maybe I'll finally understand why past me hates present and future me so much.

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cheetah_chrome t1_isq1q0e wrote

I’ve always been a total dick to future me. I really don’t care for him.

It’s worked out great for present me!

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janethefish t1_isn09xz wrote

> If they can inject a rat brain with human brain cells and it assimilates, especially in an already developed rat brain, imagine what it could do for people. Inject brain matter to make yourself smarter? Maybe, but probably not? Inject brain matter into the brains of those with a traumatic brain injury or who are otherwise "brain dead"? Might bring people back from the dead. Who knows until we try it?

You probably cant add a noticeable amount of brain mass/cells to a healthy human brain. There really isnt more room.

Any new cells would need to be trained. If you take someone from brain dead to brain alive by adding new brain cells, then you have a new person.

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Sentinel451 t1_isn51kv wrote

I think it'd be more of a therapy with mild to moderate improvement for people with TBIs, stroke victims, dementia, and so on. Not a cure, but may assist in retaining current cognitive abilities and perhaps gaining a bit back.

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UncleYimbo t1_isn9ixt wrote

Bro, I got the steps right here:

  1. obtain DNA from the remains of Albert Einstein, or Stephen Hawking, or Marie Curie, or whatever smart fucker you please

  2. Clone up some geniuses who get all the best schooling, free ride for life, with today's internet and technology to augment them

  3. Give them a billion dollars each for the trouble of being lab rats but after they are grown and as smart as can be, they agree to let us have a little blob of them good brains.

  4. rinse and repeat a few times until we have super geniuses. We can probably take genius sperm and genius eggs and made super brain babies too

  5. keep going along these routes for awhile and eventually save up tons of the very best brains we got

  6. clone the brains and implant them in every human at birth with a little syringe right in their soft spot

Boom. Humanity is saved. DM me my Nobel Prize.

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PuellaBona t1_isp40pb wrote

No, that's when the super geniuses decide that the universe would be better off without the human race. Boom. Apocalypse.

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UncleYimbo t1_ispg755 wrote

Well, I'm depressed so that'll work for me too

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Nauin t1_isoq73l wrote

My brain(lol) went immediately to Alzheimer's patients, since Alzheimer's causes your brain to quite literally erode away and makes the brain shrink significantly in mass.

No idea how this tech would work to help that, but still, they're the patients who need more neural connections. Especially the devastating early onset cases.

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