Can We Do Brain Motor Skills Training While You Sleep Using Exoskeleton Technology?

When someone has a stroke and brain damage it often affects their mobility, and this is because if the stroke hits a certain part of the brain which is used for walking, then the person has to learn how to walk all over again. Luckily the human brain can adapt and use other parts to do this task, but still it's almost as if they have to start all over. And what about kids with cerebral palsy, combat veterans with brain damage, or accident victims? Not long ago, I was discussing this with an acquaintance - the potential for using exoskeleton technology to help retrain, or the case of cerebral palsy - teach the brain to walk.

The gentleman who brought this to my attention suggested that we should use the latest technology in exoskeletons used by the military in their research. What we would do is strap people in and the exoskeleton would walk them around, rather than them being in a wheelchair, and as they were doing this it would be like training the muscles, reflexes, and the brain on how to move properly to walk.

Should We Integrate a Working Organic Human Brain Into a Future Long-Term Spacecraft?

Long term space flight could be too overwhelming for the human body in its present form. There is space radiation, challenges with bone loss, and the body has evolved for 1G or one Earth Gravity Unit, not near weightlessness. Humans also seem to need food, and oxygen and all sorts of other things, that turns out to be a big challenge, even sending people close by to places like the Moon or Mars for instance. Okay so, let's talk shall we?

Not long, ago I was discussing all this with an acquaintance from a purely futuristic standpoint, even Sci Fi theory if you will. We postulated that we might take a human brain and put it into an exoskeleton, and it would fly the spacecraft. He suggested that perhaps the human brain ought to be part of the spacecraft instead? He also wonders if we might find handicapped people who are paralyzed and can't their current bodies anyway to volunteer for the mission at hand.