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Injecting these organelles does not trigger immune reactions or cause inflammation in the eye.
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Scientists transplanted healthy mitochondria into a blind woman’s eyes, which temporarily restored light response but failed to restore full vision.
- The procedure successfully prevented inflammatory responses and tissue damage during the transplant process.
- While pupils briefly responded to light, this effect was temporary and did not lead to permanent visual recovery.
- Researchers observed that pupil response levels remained higher than pre-transplant baseline after four weeks of observation.
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Complex behaviors like imagination emerge through situated action in a material world rather than isolated internal processes.
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Anthony Chemero argues that human cognition and consciousness are fundamentally embodied social phenomena arising from reciprocal interactions between organisms, environments, and other people rather than being products of isolated internal mental processes or disembodied computation.
- Cognitive science must account for embodied interactions with environments to explain how human minds dynamically shape their perceptions of reality.
- AI systems do not require interpersonal engagement or the capacity for care to function; they operate through distinct computational mechanisms unrelated to social dynamics.
- The distinction between real thinking and imagination lies in whether cognition emerges from ongoing physical-world interaction versus hidden mental processes, fundamentally altering our understanding of machine intelligence.
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