Because this is our brave new world. I think this could be applied to people's recovery from COVID-19 as well. The symptoms that resulted because SARS-CoV-2 destroyed cell walls were blood clots from the destruction of cells to the clotting response. Americans today are suffering from the long-term effects of the virus. We need to think long and hard about what happens next.
Because the USA can be looking at many people with disabilities that would never have happened to them if the virus was allowed to run rampant through the USA for the purpose of continuing an economy Trump wanted. The man is pure evil.
But, the point is there is developing technology that can return function to people and let them live a full life with an opportunity to gain wealth. No one on disability insurance is gaining wealth. I believe this technology will eventually have widespread use in curing the problems of COVID-19 patients and end their disability.
This technology will have the greatest return on investment in children that will develop normally rather than with deficits. This is definitely where we are headed and culturally it is an answer to helplessness and far more functional society.
By Chris Stokel-Walker
A simple artificial nervous system (click here) is able to mimic the way humans respond to light and learn to perform basic tasks. The principle could be used to create more useful robots and prostheses
.Humans, when confronted by external stimuli such as heat or light, can react rapidly and automatically – think about how your hand withdraws from a hot surface, or how your leg flicks up when tapped on the knee. These are unconscious responses. But conscious responses, such as catching a ball, must be honed by repeated stimulation.
Researchers at three universities in South Korea have developed an artificial system capable of simulating a conscious response to external stimuli. It consists of a photodiode – which converts light into an electrical signal, a transistor acting as a mechanical synapse, an artificial neuron circuit, which acts as the system’s brain, and a robotic hand.
When the photodiode detects light, it sends an electrical signal through the transistor that the light is on. That signal is carried to the artificial neuron circuit. There, the message is received, and that circuit then learns how to respond to the signal, sending a command to a robotic hand it controls.
At the same time as the light is turned on, starting the whole process off at the photodiode, a ball is dropped from above the hand. The idea is for the contraption to learn how to cup the hand quickly enough to catch the ball....
