Ein in Kalifornien ansässiges Unternehmen hat an, dass es Laboranbaute Neuronen in Mäuseschirme verschmolzen hat und dass es eines Tages dazu führen könnte, dass Menschen mit Hirnschäden über die gleiche Technologie zusätzliche Gehirnkapazität gewinnen.

Submission Statement

My first reaction to this was to think of all the reasons it couldn’t work, but who knows?

We don’t understand much of how neurons in aggregate make up „us“, less mind understand much about the details of what types of neurons and parts of the brain do specific things. Also, who’d want to be the first human volunteers for this?

As anyone who has ever read Oliver Sacks *’The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’* will know, brain damage can do some very peculiar things to our consciousness, so who knows what giving us extra brain matter might do? Perhaps some of it could be good.

Why 99% of the human population can’t seem to use 1% of their brain…