Like why can’t we recreate a synthetic physical body or body part? Like robots have such a hard time walking by themselves without a constrained set of programming and environment? Or that even keeping a heart beating outside of the is hard to do without a big machine to do all the work?
The best way I can explain is like why can’t we recreate the muscles/ Body part very well? Or at least mimic them in terms of function?
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1. Mechanics are hard and still advancing – as much as I love the robo ‘dog’, that took an extreme level of work just to create something that wouldn’t fall over when walking.
2. robots have trouble recognizing the environment because it’s changing and odd and not within what it thinks it should be – see roombas getting stuck in odd locations, AI not recognizing handwriting, etc.
3. brains are ridiculously complicated. Like, ocular/eyes are at least partially processed near the back of the skull but are also flipped and that’s the thing that’s very very obvious (damage there, person can’t see). A lot of brain science is based on a very small amount of case studies because we only know what happens by poking at it (and stabbing someone’s brain is very rude).
4. Connecting to the brain thing, nerves are very complicated and those are the most basic part of the nervous system. So trying to connect all of the complications of the nervous system – the thing that actually lets you blink or move your hand – and try to connect it to something artificial uh…kinda requires more understanding than we currently have. We’re trying tho!
So yeah. Biology’s complicated, mechanical is supposed to be less but if we’re literally writing in instructions and building the thing ourselves without using genes as an intermediary and all the complications of trying to literally alter life and brain systems that we don’t understand and we really, really are having trouble with mere robots? Then yeah, poking at life means no true robo arms for a while longer.
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