it's waayy more important than anyone realized, probably more important than having a central neural network itself. i've been working on short term body memory for robots utilizing sample-and-hold capacitors that store a specific voltage until it is discharged/measured. it has it's own charge and discharge circuits so that you can refresh the memory like traditional memory for the body parts. currently for cheapness and speed of prototyping you can use liquid crystal active matrix displays to act as a sample and hold memory. each body part gets an active lcd matrix and the limb/body part has forces/measurements stored in the lcd and read back to a central microchip. this has many many many benefits, too many to list here, but for brevity imagine storing all the information about every step you took as a biped all over your entire body. you can start to see the benefits of this > my own work is related to neurological disease, but ultimately i want to know more about the nature of consciousness. i unironically think that consciousness will only be understood by people like you and i working together. > i suspect the non-nervous system parts of the body are more important to the mind than we currently imagine.  it is.  > a major point of interest for me is that metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes and dementia are remarkably similar on a molecular level. damn that's crazy interesting.
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