Robin on Christopher Reeve & Oliver Sacks

ROBIN WILLIAMS SAID: "Even this table. You always feel like any moment a guy's going: 2 no trump."

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[smzig]

Every interview with Robin Williams I see, he's always cracking jokes and is a big clown. But when he talks about his close friend, it's like he's a different person.

[Sarah404]

if u read christopher reeve's biography he talks about robbin making him laugh in hospital when he wanted to kill himself... listening to robbin talk about christopher like that makes me cry.. christopher was my hero and still is..

[bzylizzy]

They were wonderful friends, both men were and are amazing in their field....

[999JPETZ]

Robin Williams is a genius, of human behavior and connection.

[bliz78obrien1]

Children very rarely inherit a neurological abnormality the exact form of a parent. If a down syndrome adult had children, they'd pass on the chromosome number and affect birth, perhaps, but the nerve injury is NOT determined by the chromosomes, and is NOT gene-directed! I hope we can find nerve tissue transplants and therapy to maintain nerve functions. Perhaps it won't be 100%. Perhaps 60, 70,80% of Nerve function returned with medicine and lead somewhat normal life.

[Brady2k10]

and when reeves had to have a dangerous operation, at some point his spine wasnt connected to his skull, and the docs said it was 50/50 it would work, a that time, when obviously reeves must have been really scared, robin went into the room, dressed up, speaking in a russian accent saying hes there to do a rectal exam on reeves, n tht made reeves laugh, n everything went fine, but unfortunately, reeves condition just kept pullin him downhill ever since and we lost the real superman. RIP.

[jtsmizzack]

I love charlie rose

[WarriorMigs24]

RIP Christopher Reeve

[SocratesTheGadfly]

@RESIDENTRYAN the result is the implants have a tendency to be rejected by the human body and over time cause additional problems. over time there is a degradation of the pathways used to send signals. trust me there are thousands of bio-mechanical-electrical engineers doing millions of dollars of research to solve the problem of allowing paraplegics and quadroplegics to walk, use their hands and function the way before there unfortunate accidents. we need at least a hundred years

[SocratesTheGadfly]

@RESIDENTRYAN but how do you separate the active signals from the passive signals? how do you separate the involunntary muscular reactions from the voluntary muscular reactions? it is a great deal more complicated than you think trying to separate the signals from each other. nature through biology has evolved the human body biologically through bio-chemical and bio-mechanical processes. when one introduces man-made materials the body has a tendency to reject them as foreign objects.

[RESIDENTRYAN]

@SocratesTheGadfly alright, so all thats needed is a material that can contain and allow the signals to travel without damaging the surrounding tissue. start thinking of materials that could be potential candidates. i can think of a few.

[RESIDENTRYAN]

@SocratesTheGadfly I dont think its necessary to control and manipulate the signals. As long as there is a medium for the signals to travel through the brain will do the rest of the work because it naturally sends the signals. once passive signals start flowing with the newly placed medium they become active signals. if the brains natural response is to send them, then they'll be sent by the brain. but it only works if there is a medium.