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Check out this article in Nature that posits that limb regeneration<\/a> may be a surprisingly simple technical matter. This is real fountain of youth stuff; anything that doesn’t kill you outright could be regrown so long as scar tissue doesn’t form and there’s sufficient time to regrow a body part \u2014 any body part \u2014 before you die.<\/p>\n What kind of society might this form? One addicted to risk for trivial reasons, one where fear of nonfatal wounds is considered cowardice or neurosis? One where fear is abolished altogether? One where it’s witheld except for those in risky occupations, leading to an age of exploration?<\/p>\n And what about regrowing parts of a brain? How would that affect who you are?<\/p>\n There’s a lot of fun to be found in this one.<\/p>\n (Thanks to Mycoplasm Twitch, the Man of Tomorrow for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check out this article in Nature that posits that limb regeneration may be a surprisingly simple technical matter. This is real fountain of youth stuff; anything that doesn’t kill you outright could be regrown so long as scar tissue doesn’t form and there’s sufficient time to regrow a body part \u2014 any body part \u2014 … Continue reading “Shock: Proton Pump”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}