Put my head on Angelina Jolie's body so I can play with myself. See? Always a bright side to everything.
Think I just peed myself, KevinH. But seriously, the idea of a body transplant kind of creeps me out. I'm not convinced it would serve any usefull purpose just to keep a brain alive.
I think that it is right since it has the POTENTIAL to do a lot of good. It would be no use working on grafting nerves together if you didnt know that you could keep a head alive anyway.
for people who hvae a tumour or a heart attack, their brain is perfectly intact as long as you get it supplied with blood fast enough. Other people with a brain tumour would have a perfectly good body without a head.
The only problem I can see with this is that more people would die of a body related diesese than a brain related one so there would be a huge demand for a body.
for people who hvae a tumour or a heart attack, their brain is perfectly intact as long as you get it supplied with blood fast enough. Other people with a brain tumour would have a perfectly good body without a head.
The only problem I can see with this is that more people would die of a body related diesese than a brain related one so there would be a huge demand for a body.
Really? I thought it was for the improvement of humanity through increased knowledge. Well, I guess I was wrong.
"improvement" is subjective. I would argue that humans have not improved one bit throughout our evolution, we still have the same fundamental problems. All that's changed is we have new distractions.
"improvement" is subjective. I would argue that humans have not improved one bit throughout our evolution, we still have the same fundamental problems. All that's changed is we have new distractions.
No. I don't think it's morally wrong. Without "unethical" experiments, we wouldn't have as much knowledge as we do now. Take Milgram's conformity experiments. They're considered highly unethical, but a lot was learned.
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I think that it is right since it has the POTENTIAL to do a lot of good. It would be no use working on grafting nerves together if you didnt know that you could keep a head alive anyway.
for people who hvae a tumour or a heart attack, their brain is perfectly intact as long as you get it supplied with blood fast enough. Other people with a brain tumour would have a perfectly good body without a head.
The problem is that nerves and brain stem alignment vary from body to body. A brain to different body transplant as hypothesized in Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" would be pretty tough. This experiment is nothing new; they've been trying things like it for a while now.
There's an interesting book called "Fountain Society" by Wes Craven that addressed this issue. In the book, the government is attempting a project to clone a human being so as to transplant the brain of the cloned individual into the younger clone body. Obviously the clone wouldn't appreciate this much, since they have been living for a few years until the transplant is needed. It's a cool book, pick it up. Intriguing because what is considered in the book is the ultimate junction of experiments like these and with cloning. Got a bad liver? No problem, just clone one. Rounding sixty and the old body isn't what it used to be? Get a new one. The interesting issue that Craven raised was that it couldn't be an indefinite thing; the brain tissue would continue aging and increase the chances of stroke and embolism.
for people who hvae a tumour or a heart attack, their brain is perfectly intact as long as you get it supplied with blood fast enough. Other people with a brain tumour would have a perfectly good body without a head.
The problem is that nerves and brain stem alignment vary from body to body. A brain to different body transplant as hypothesized in Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" would be pretty tough. This experiment is nothing new; they've been trying things like it for a while now.
There's an interesting book called "Fountain Society" by Wes Craven that addressed this issue. In the book, the government is attempting a project to clone a human being so as to transplant the brain of the cloned individual into the younger clone body. Obviously the clone wouldn't appreciate this much, since they have been living for a few years until the transplant is needed. It's a cool book, pick it up. Intriguing because what is considered in the book is the ultimate junction of experiments like these and with cloning. Got a bad liver? No problem, just clone one. Rounding sixty and the old body isn't what it used to be? Get a new one. The interesting issue that Craven raised was that it couldn't be an indefinite thing; the brain tissue would continue aging and increase the chances of stroke and embolism.
<< Heh. Actually, the first concern on the average scientist's mind is to get a grant!! No financial support, no research, no academic position. >>
I work in a research lab. I can tell you now, even though I don't consider my mentors as money grubbing or anything of the sort, getting a grant is ALWAYS on their mind. So very true.
I work in a research lab. I can tell you now, even though I don't consider my mentors as money grubbing or anything of the sort, getting a grant is ALWAYS on their mind. So very true.
That is the system. Get data, write papers, apply for grants, get data, write papers, apply for grants, etc. Hopefully, during one of those iterations you actually get the grant!!!
That is the system. Get data, write papers, apply for grants, get data, write papers, apply for grants, etc. Hopefully, during one of those iterations you actually get the grant!!!
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