The Woman Perpetually Falling!

A woman perpetually falling

"Her brain is decoding signals from her artificial vestibular apparatus... A neuroplastic miracle, because somehow the tingling sensations on her tongue move past her brain cortex to the area of balance"

The woman who is perpetually following is able to use the tingling sensation from her tongue to send signals to her brain that controls the balance in order to help the vestibular apparatus function normally. This makes sense because the brain will be able to use that area of the brain if activity is performed there. Also, this is a much quicker way than Pedro, a man recovering from a stroke who was paralyzed but taught his brain to carry out multiple functions, because instead of taking years to reteach the brain, they can send currents through it to help it work. 

Vestibular Apparatus

"Bach-Y-Rita determined that skin and it's touch receptors could substitute for a retina.... Allow a picture to form on them"
     
The idea that the skin can use touch receptors to substitute for an area is a great idea. Also, the idea that touch is not from skin, seeing is not from the eyes and hearing is not from the ears makes more sense because they are instead from the brain. This relates to why blind people use their walker to touch their surroundings and use their touch as their sight, or when mothers tell their kids to plug their noses when they eat broccoli because when you don't smell the food it is harder to taste it.     

This is the sensory scalpel

"he has developed a device for the NAVY SEALs that helps him cents how their bodies are oriented underwater. And another towel surgeons exact position of a scalpel to a small device attached to their tongues and to their brains"    
I find it astonishing how the device would increase the safety of surgeries and make it easier to perform surgeries by using signaled scalpel and have another place a touch of the tongue where you can use your sense in order to perform the surgery precisely.

Relate and review:

This article was intriguing in the idea that the five senses come from the brain and not from the ear nose tongue and skin. Having a person lose part of their brain and then have neurons and elect electrical signals to go through in order to control the brain is insane. Also, when a person be able to put a chip in their brain or put in an earpiece to have more signals go through their brain to the balance area? Next, having multiple parts of the brain take over the part that is missing is really cool and a very big step in Science because it can help the healing process of injuries that occur later in life to the brain or young infants you have brain damage from birth.