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footatoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

One wonders if someday we might be able to resurrect the neural network from dead cells by somehow reviving the connections between neurons. I imagine that the connections stay, but become dormant when the neuron dies.


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asdfftoday at 1:45 AM

There is nothing to resurrect. They get digested by the microglia.

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steve_taylortoday at 1:08 AM

Perhaps, but I think that by the time we're that far advanced, strokes will be entirely preventable.

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