Which is to say; in this day and age with modern data transmission technology as advanced as it is, why arent we yet able to capture signals at say; the base of a break in the spinal cord, and transmit them appropriately to the other end?
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We don’t actually have a good understanding of what means what in nerve signals. It would be like trying to speak a language we don’t understand. We also don’t have a way to make such small connections that are separate from each other. Nerves are extremely small, and still insulate from each other so a signal does not jump to the next nerve over. We can use electrodes to stimulate a nerve to get an unpredictable response like a kick, or a muscle contraction, and we can read some data from nerves. We don’t have electrodes that can read, or stimulate one nerve at a time.
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