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This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. (www.technologyreview.com)
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[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At first one half of my thumb was entirely numb, and over the course of well over a decade I'd get pins & needles as bunches of nerves would finish regrowing, except attached to random channels in the nerve bundle, so my brain had to completely remap all those signals to what they actually meant.

It felt super weird because hot, cold, pain & touch were all mixed up, but eventually my brain sorted them out.

Wow, that's fascinating. Thanks for sharing your story.

[โ€“] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! As far as I know I'm not describing anything too unusual with the mixed-up signals, I think pins & needles is essentially that, just a bunch of nerves randomly firing, so you probably do know what it's like in little doses.

I've been paying attention to it since I wrote that, and it definitely is still slightly more numb on the affected side, I think I was right that not all the nerves regrew completely.