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Re:Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch af... by AtlasBarfed on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:31PM (#37014391)
Interesting. So like how many axons? If you connect to all the axons on both ends and make the stimulation programmable then you could adjust simulation of the axons across the bridge. But I'm guessing we're talking a lot of axons.

Anyway, what do I know? I'm an idiot on the internet

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Re:Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch af... by epups on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:32PM (#37015031)
In humans, around a million axons [1]. But not every lesion severs all axons. It's very challenging to stimulate individual axons as well, especially at scale.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2017.0012...

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