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The businessinsider.com article seems to best line out the many clues and linkings that this may be the case, not the least of which seems to be that the image of Dr. Canavero is used as the neurosurgeon in the game. Also possibly telling, the article states:
Hideo Kojima, who heads up the “Metal Gear Solid” franchise, tweeted about his next project in 2010: “The next project will challenge a certain type of taboo. If I mess up, I’ll probably have to leave the industry. However, I don’t want to pass by avoiding that. I turn 47 this year. It’s been 24 years since I started making games. Today, I got an ally who would happily support me in that risk. Although it’s just one person. For a start, it’s good.” This makes it sound like Kojima was able to persuade Dr. Canavero to join his venture — to help leverage his authority as a famous doctor and neurosurgeon to promote "Metal Gear Solid 5" with a viral marketing stunt.
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However, things aren't completely cut and dried. Independent.co.uk states that "It’s unlikely that Canavero’s story is fake — he has published over 100 papers and carried out genuine medical procedures, as blog Kotaku noted in a post detailing the claims — but has brought extra attention to Canavero’s claims."More info on the possible procedure from the iflscience.com article :
It started in 2013, when Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group proposed the idea of using surgery to extend the lives of people with degenerated muscles and nerves or cancer-permeated organs, New Scientist reports. Canavero summarized the 36-hour procedure he plans to follow in Surgical Neurology International in February of this year. He also plans to launch the project at the annual American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting in Maryland this June. He’ll need a staff of 150 doctors and nurses.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Friday April 24 2015, @03:47AM
You don't connect it with direct surgery. You provide the right circumstances for cells to grow and figure out the connection process themselves.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday April 24 2015, @05:46AM
You provide the right circumstances for cells to grow and figure out the connection process themselves.
And because the nerve cells are connected to the brain cells, they are really good at figuring this out by themselves? ;-)
Someone should tell the quadriplegics then?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @01:45PM
The brain is actually very good at relearning the connections and rewiring itself, but it can't do anything if the nerves aren't connected, and nerves grow very slowly.
Anyway, I don't think kaszz was advocating for full-body transplants as you seem to be assuming, just stating that a spinal cord reconnection procedure itself would be life changing for some people. I'm sure they'll happen one day, but that day will likely be a long way off and there probably won't be many good reasons to actually perform them.