Are you okay with that?
IMagine black market, they're gonna hunt you for your head now, scary .
And when you wake up you are in a monkey body .
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"IMagine black market, they're gonna hunt you for your BODY now, scary ."
*fixed
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This is why I don't work out as much as I should. It's simply protection from the body snatchers.
... yup. That's the story and I'm sticking to it.
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I can transplant a head too! I just can't guarantee either patient will be alive at the end, though.
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Haha no one can if we don't try and have only vague notion of it. BTW decades ago people tried to transplant a monkey's head and it kind of worked. The monkey was alive for a couple of days but couldn't move because they didn't manage to properly join spinal cords. At least that's what I've read.
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I'm waiting for them to develop the brain jars. Just put my brain in a capsule and put it into a robot body. I'm all set.
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you mean a body. transplanting a body to a head makes sense. not the other way around.
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It's just a point of view. Everyone knows what's meant.
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it's not about different point of views. the person that'll (hopefully) keep living is the one with the head. you never hear a heart getting a body transplant, do you? it's a heart transplant to a body. just like it, this is a body transplant to a head.
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I totally understand your point of view, but in this case (moving a head from body x to y) it's fine. It also sounds more dramatic :D
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Im sorry but, Doctor Italian didn't spent two weeks on fake medical school for you to question his methods, now did he?.
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i'm not questioning his/her methods. i'm pretty sure he/she will most probably kill the patient anyway. it's just weird to think a body getting a new head rather than a head getting a new body. anyway, rip in pieces.
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I agree with what you say. The body isn't getting a head, the head is getting a body. This is a body transplant, not a head transplant. The patient who is getting the operation is the head.
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"He would then glue the patient's head onto the donor's body"
Of Course! why didn't i think about that?
magic glue was the answer, all along
Edit: i cant believe ive been using this shit for almost 2 years now
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It's the Daily Mail. Nothing they publish is ever worth taking a look at.
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Yes, of course, soon.
Make your heads and legs robotic and your chest after hands and legs and you are done
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lol nah thx. how it will be, your stranger under your head or your head on a stranger. heeelll no.
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I imagine there's a lot of fiddly about what body to use for the head to have both not reject the other. Blood matching, marrow acceptance, and spinal connections... Maybe same gender, likely similar general height and build...
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I'm fine with that, but what i really want is body augmentations like in Deus Ex HR !
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Fow what ? Head transplantation ? Not really :D. It's one thing to augment yourself by having chips in your head, swapping organs and body parts. And another to just put your head on another body :D. I don't think they are talking about transplanting a head to robotic body.
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If it'll make people's lives better and ain't gonna make other people's lives worse in the process, I'm okay with it.
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Total bullshit. If he can transplant a paralyzed person's head, more specifically one with a spinal cord injury, onto a "healthy" body, you're just going to be severing the spinal cord farther up when you cut the head off. So either you're just going to have a new body and be more paralyzed due to the spinal cord being severed higher up or he's figured out a way to re-grow a spinal cord. If he has discovered how to re-grow a spinal cord, why do you need a body transplant?
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Head transplants are already possible (it's been done with dogs.) The problem is that they can't reattach the spinal cord, so the resulting patient will be a quadriplegic.
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I care not about a new squishy, easily brekable and in a few years again failing body. Where's the improvement in that? I guess handicapped people could use that, but again, where's the imporvement?
Still, a step forward.
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I'm pretty sure it's not possible or at least it won't be until we figure out how to re-connect the spinal cord
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This one needs a bump!
Just a few months until the event - December 2017
https://www.facebook.com/TheScienceExplorer/videos/1505188339500234/
We are already playing God ... and if this turns out to be successful ... i really can't imagine the worldwide impact it will have ... in the negative way.
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We made up god anyway.
But I'm glad you bumped this!
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We are already playing God
🎵You don't have to believe me
But the way I, way I see it
Next time you point a finger
I might have to bend it back 🎶
Or break it, break it off
Next time you point a finger
I'll point you to the mirror🎵 🎶
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i really can't imagine the worldwide impact it will have ... in the negative way.
How negative? Lives can be saved thanks to that, I don't think it's really any different than arms/organs transplant... just a bit more "complete". :P
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I know the good part of it. I didn't want to go into details regarding the negative ones... but i was referring to military exploits and ... bah ... new world order stuff, rich vs poor priority, etc
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It looks like we're getting close to head transplants become possible.
I know it's a shitty source, but it's worth taking a look at it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2969375/Could-doctors-REALLY-transplant-head-body-2-years-time-Italian-surgeon-confident-perform-7-5milllion-operation-help-paralysed-patients-like-Christopher-Reeve.html
I can imagine the suffering of paralysed pepole and it would be great if we could help them. But are head transplants moral and fine with you?
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