Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surgical reunion of divided nerve-trunks and other forms of plastic surgery of the nerves.
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- noun Any
surgery torepair nerve tissue.
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- noun plastic surgery of the nerves
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Examples
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If neuroplasty is better at curing pathological affective disorders than drugs, fair enough, but I doubt it'll actually be any less dissociating than the drug equivalents, where it focuses on inhibiting or compensating for chronic or acute conditions.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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You'll see, I think, a similar, pattern of success and failure in neuroplasty as genuine medicine, and you'll see a similar pattern of quackery and dependence, with "treatment" creating problems where there were none before.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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Comparing drugs (and pre-pharmacological revolution ones at that) with neuroplasty is like comparing eye-liner to reconstructive surgery.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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The deeper level of neuroplasty is left as a functionless technology.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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You're missing the core point of my distinction between trivial and radical neuroplasty, which is not to say such radical neuroplasty is essentially impossible, but rather to say that it is intrinsically functionless.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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Aside from your argument by analogy (neuroplasty = drugs) you really offer nothing else to suggest that this will be the operative mechanism.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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I'll give you even money that one of the first instances of neuroplasty will be ex-gay therapy by Christian quacks, that it'll be used to treat "normalise" people in the wider culture far more than it will ever be used to "transcend humanity".
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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I see little intrinsic function to your radical neuroplasty other than novelty and shock value.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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Neither can we assume that finding a function for radical, extreme neuroplasty (which you're conflating with the superficial dabbling we actually need (or want, rather) to achieve the sort of goals you base your argument on) will result in "PLANET OF THE TRANSHUMANS!!!"
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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Otherwise, you seem to be suggesting that there's 'nothing alarmingly new' in the spectre of neuroplasty - which couldn't be farther from the case.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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