I find alternative approaches to prosthetics fascinating. With enough crativity, prostethics dont need to be replacements for standard limbs. How long do you think it will be before prosthetics exceed regular limbs?

  • STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No reason to just copy our old anatomy if you can come up with something better. For example, humans don’t have nearly enough thumbs. Not only do we obviously need thumbs on our feet but we should also get a 2nd thumb on the opposite side of our hands.

    But that’s because the thumbs would be extremely useful. So what exactly is the advantage of a tentacle? The only way to grab something would be to constrict around it

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        1 year ago

        You understand quite well the purpose human limbs fulfill, and where they lack potential.

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      1 year ago

      On the subject of ditching the human 1.0 blueprints, cheap prosthetics could bring the opportunity to add limbs or mechadendrites tech priest style. I often just need one more hand to hold something in place while I’m working, not even a proper dexterous hand, just something simple with some clamping force for when my hands are already in use. Could attach it with a harness or something. Cheap prosthetics plus some ability to control them via brain (I know most current designs work by looking for muscle movements intended for the now-missing limb, so I don’t know how we’d send signals to an additional one yet) would be awesome.