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How to Build a Bionic Human

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The Effect of Hand Transplants on the Human Body

The eye is not just a camera. It's attached to an optic nerve, which itself a moulds itself. The nerve that leads from the back of the retina through to your brain,. n moulds itself according to what you see in early life. And so at that level of complexity, it’s much, much, much more challenging than just slapping a c c d camera in the back of your eye. Well, i wanted to ask something, i'll ask you, lucy, about the psychological effect as well - when we talk about having something replaced, save for it, in the hand. If you have a har transplant from somebody else, that you may feel

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