Timeline for If accelerated natural healing were to occur, what would happen to the human body?
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| Aug 16, 2023 at 13:53 | comment | added | John | Scarring is not necessarily a part of healing, scarring is something short lived warm-blooded animals evolved to seal wounds up fast instead of properly healing it. Just grow a plug of connective tissue. Animals that can regrow limbs produce very little scar tissue, interestingly if you prevent scar tissue formation in mammals they heal slower but more completely, such as regenerating entire new joints from severed digits. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 12:41 | comment | added | PcMan | very good healing will remove all scars, all callouses, all trained muscle fitness. perfect healing will do this and erase all memory, and erase all cognitive development that happened from before birth up to about 4-5years old. This cognitive growth occurring via the growth and death of neural dendrites. You would not only lose all memories, you would "forget" how to see, how to process visual and auditory stimuli. Bad idea! | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 21:35 | comment | added | FoxElemental | Lol. My superhuman healing ability actually allows me to--oh. Sorry. | |
| Mar 6, 2018 at 2:56 | answer | added | Champ Parker | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:31 | comment | added | Willk | I have always wondered how Wolverine remembers anything. One would think any changes in his brain would "heal", bringing the state of the brain back to the ideal state his mutation thinks he should be in. If your healing power does not extend to the brain that is not great for a guy whose line of work entails getting punched in the head a lot. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 22:37 | answer | added | whitepawn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 28, 2016 at 20:17 | answer | added | user26242 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 16:46 | comment | added | SnoringFrog | @Cragor In WoT, magical healing is done but produces strain on both the healer and the healed (proportional to the severity of the injury being healed). Thus, at times someone cannot be fully healed because they are too weak to handle the shock of it. The books don't give quite the detail you're looking for on the exact mechanics, though. Here's the wiki link (spoiler warning): wot.wikia.com/wiki/Healing | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 22:38 | answer | added | tajcook93 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 5:32 | answer | added | Dider | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 1:51 | vote | accept | Crabgor | ||
| Nov 21, 2014 at 11:53 | comment | added | Crabgor | @ratchetfreak I've never read them, too many other things to read. :P | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 11:38 | comment | added | ratchet freak | seems similar to the Healing mechanics of Wheel of Time. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 0:56 | comment | added | Crabgor | Ah, that's true. That was more of a speed example. I did not think it would be taken literally; an oversight on my part. I don't mind (as in Toby's answer) a mix of both if needed. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 0:50 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I ask because the question also refers to Wolverine as an example of accelerated healing. The depiction of this healing process is very much the Holywood "make me perfectly the same as I was before," and highly dissimilar to natural healing processes (such as scarring) | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 23:24 | answer | added | Toby Y. | timeline score: 47 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 22:48 | history | edited | Crabgor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Specified natural healing more bluntly.
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| Nov 20, 2014 at 22:35 | history | edited | Crabgor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2014 at 22:07 | comment | added | Crabgor | The main question is meant to be healing as if you were left to your own devices, a natural form of healing. If you had a broken bone, fixing it isn't just POOF it's better, it's more "set the bone, then you hold it, and I'll fix it. Hope we get this right." | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 22:00 | answer | added | Telastyn | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 21:39 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Can you comment on what it means to "heal?" A lot of movies assume healing works as "make me just like I used to be before I got injured." In reality, healing is more of a "I am in a bad place, make me better, even if the final result is different than I used to be." My thoughts on what accelerated natural healing look like depend on which viewpoint you are starting from. The former is more controlled by your desires as a worldbuilder. The latter is more controlled by the reality of how healing mechanisms work. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 20:38 | history | asked | Crabgor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |