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Surgeon Promises Head Transplant by 2017

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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-surgeon-us-you-do-it-youre-americans-n374721

An Italian neuroscientist who's been making headlines for months by claiming he is about to perform a human head transplant baffled and disappointed a conference of surgeons Friday, saying he needed American help to pull it off.

Dr. Sergio Canavero has been saying he is on the verge of transplanting a live person's head onto another body. He even has a volunteer: Valery Spiridonov, 30, a Russian computer scientist with a rare, genetic muscle-wasting disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
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What's more interesting than speculating whether he will actually be successful with this (which I think *in theory* should work, at SOME point...) - are the implications of it.

What does it mean if, at some point, it's possible to transplant someone's head onto another body...or..in the future...say, onto a machine?

In principle we could speculate it means beating death since you can just have your head transplanted onto a new body? Eternal life...or at least...life significantly extended?

Mind..sorta... blown...thinking about this.
 
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Canavero rambled for two and a half hours, struggling with a PowerPoint presentation that repeatedly crashed. He discussed medical journal papers from 1905 and a video of a dog that learned to walk after suffering a crushed spine.
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Usually not a good sign.
 
Why do I keep hearing about this crap in the news. Absolute BS, they can't even fix someones spinal cord thaat has been severed and left them paralysed. You really think they can take one persons head and put it on someone elses body.
 
Already done.

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My guess would be between 2020 and 2025 that it will become possible, not yet at 2017.

And no, this doesn't mean 'eternal life' or anything close to that. After all, the brain will still deteriorate and the other cells in the head will also still start failing more and more. Until we can pretty much copy the contents of the brain to a computer you have a better chance of reaching a longer life through medical advances like this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/scientists-reverse-ageing-process-in-mice/5865714
But even that is still quite some time away.
 
this is bs and I know it because otherwise there'd be a string of successful head transplants on animals (currently the best they achieved is a completely paralized monkey that lived for 9 days before immunorejection), and there would be a boom in paralysis-fixing operations long before head transplants.

It's yet another bs story, following stamina, e-cat, petroldragon, and the other wonders of italian story-telling and conspiracism.

This doesn't mean eternal life anyway as the head is still there.
 
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I'm surprised people in this thread are actually taking this claim seriously enough to go to the effort to refute it.
 
Puppies04 said:
Why do I keep hearing about this crap in the news. Absolute BS, they can't even fix someones spinal cord thaat has been severed and left them paralysed. You really think they can take one persons head and put it on someone elses body.
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I think his reasoning was if you use really really sharp knives to cut the spinal cord then attaching it is doable.
 
Auric said:
Imagine how advanced medical science would be today if only Mengele had a Ginsu set.
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Totally...

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Skyclad1uhm1 said:
My guess would be between 2020 and 2025 that it will become possible, not yet at 2017.

And no, this doesn't mean 'eternal life' or anything close to that. After all, the brain will still deteriorate and the other cells in the head will also still start failing more and more. Until we can pretty much copy the contents of the brain to a computer you have a better chance of reaching a longer life through medical advances like this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/scientists-reverse-ageing-process-in-mice/5865714
But even that is still quite some time away.
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Yes sure, the brain will deteriorate. But now we could replace 99% of the body, so basically each any time the rest of the body starts to fail. The head/brain itself might well last a lot longer. This is why I said "live significantly" longer. (Who knows, many hundreds of years).

Point is, even when this surgery right now causes all sorts of ethical concerns, so do I think it's only a matter of time WHEN such a transplant would be possible. 2017....2027...2050, 2100...doesn't matter. At some point I am almost positive it will be done, in the same way as I am positive that it will be possible to attach a head/brain to a machine. (Talking about the very far future of course. Who knows, this might then become even more attractive than the idea to have a body which can age, get sick etc.). So basically, the mind is getting independent from a body which is by definition "flawed". I can WELL see this happening.)
 
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