Human Head Transplants Coming Soon?

LeninGHOLA said:
Why?
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Because if we could clone healthy sheep, in the late 90s. Its probably not that implausible that 15-years later, we could --if not for moral and ethical issues-- already clone a healthy human body and transplant our brains onto it when we become ...~65? 65 is the new 20! Cloning a human body would likely be a reasonable scientific development easier to achieve than having a complete android body that interacts with the main and provides equivalent life support.

As long as you took care of mental health issues like dementia medication for those whom have prone genes, etc. You could see someone living to 150-200. It would all depend how long the brain could last if you could keep replacing the lower 90%, ears and the eyes. When your going on 65 and your body perhaps comes down with cancer, you have terrible knees, suffer from erectile dysfunction, have a bad back and/or break a hip while having carpel tunnel syndrome and someone says $15-$30k for a new body, I'm sure many would jump on that opportunity rather than buy a new-car.
 
Robertmarcus said:
I feel like the you would need to be a super tough person mentally for the body to accept that kind of transition. I mean, you literally arent even the same skin, heart, lungs, etc. The chances of denial seem incredible high.
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Yeah, I'd only opt for this sort of thing if my head was being attached to a cloned version of my own body. Anything else would be too weird—weird enough to find death preferable.
 
So... say they work out how to easily get the spinal cord reattached and the body functional...

One thing that comes to mind is: "Why does this girl's face look so mannish?" lol

The future in sex change operations?

Clone yourself a body with XX or XY, swap out all of it...
 
WBurchnall said:
Because if we could clone healthy sheep, in the late 90s. Its probably not that implausible that 15-years later, we could --if not for moral and ethical issues-- already clone a healthy human body and transplant our brains onto it when we become ...~65? 65 is the new 20! Cloning a human body would likely be a reasonable scientific development easier to achieve than having a complete android body that interacts with the main and provides equivalent life support.

As long as you took care of mental health issues like dementia medication for those whom have prone genes, etc. You could see someone living to 150-200. It would all depend how long the brain could last if you could keep replacing the lower 90%, ears and the eyes. When your going on 65 and your body perhaps comes down with cancer, you have terrible knees, suffer from erectile dysfunction, have a bad back and/or break a hip while having carpel tunnel syndrome and someone says $15-$30k for a new body, I'm sure many would jump on that opportunity rather than buy a new-car.
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I don't see how anything could go wrong.
 
WBurchnall said:
Because if we could clone healthy sheep, in the late 90s. Its probably not that implausible that 15-years later, we could --if not for moral and ethical issues-- already clone a healthy human body and transplant our brains onto it when we become ...~65? 65 is the new 20! Cloning a human body would likely be a reasonable scientific development easier to achieve than having a complete android body that interacts with the main and provides equivalent life support.

As long as you took care of mental health issues like dementia medication for those whom have prone genes, etc. You could see someone living to 150-200. It would all depend how long the brain could last if you could keep replacing the lower 90%, ears and the eyes. When your going on 65 and your body perhaps comes down with cancer, you have terrible knees, suffer from erectile dysfunction, have a bad back and/or break a hip while having carpel tunnel syndrome and someone says $15-$30k for a new body, I'm sure many would jump on that opportunity rather than buy a new-car.
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you should read about brain degeneration. it starts WAY before 100 years dude. have you ever spoken to 101 year old? it aint their body thats holding them back trust me.


nobody should live to be 150-200 years old.
 
WBurchnall said:
Because if we could clone healthy sheep, in the late 90s. Its probably not that implausible that 15-years later, we could --if not for moral and ethical issues-- already clone a healthy human body and transplant our brains onto it when we become ...~65? 65 is the new 20! Cloning a human body would likely be a reasonable scientific development easier to achieve than having a complete android body that interacts with the main and provides equivalent life support.
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If you care about the morality of it, when the clone is made, assuming with a brain, when their brain is removed, you are effectively murdering that person in order for you to take over their body.

Even though they might be a physical clone of you, they are still their own individual person and, no matter how similar to your own, have their own thought-process.

If you could grow or produce the clone body without a brain, then I would say it is morally ok, since it is just "active" flesh without a mind, similar to a liver transplant.

Still, once my body is old and worn-out, I would so go for a Ghost in the Shell style cybernetic body.
With only your brain left, that's as cyborg as you can get!
 
Hmm, interested to see if this can lead into full on brain transplants. That would be crazy :eek:. SCIENCE!
 
This story is complete total crap because you cannot reattach spinal nerves. You would never get blood vessels, muscles, ligaments and so much more reattached successfully. Complete and utter crap! :rolleyes:
 
All of a sudden I'm imagining a dystopian horror movie about insane political class elites with their 200-year-old droopy cheeks sliding off their faces and onto their rock-hard super-soldier bodies.
 
Geonerd said:
The article says he claims to have developed a procedure to re-attach the spinal cord.
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They found a unique identifier for each nerve (DNA SQL) in the spinal cord and will use programmable nano-bots to sort & repair each one without a surgeon.
 
dremic said:
you should read about brain degeneration. it starts WAY before 100 years dude. have you ever spoken to 101 year old? it aint their body thats holding them back trust me.


nobody should live to be 150-200 years old.
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Then feel free to die at whatever age you believe is right. I disagree and have no desire or intention of death before 150. If Technology helps me achieve that, then you can darn well bet I will take advantage of it.

dremic said:
http://io9.com/5176536/your-brain-starts-deteriorating-by-age-27-say-neuroscientists
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And you can find just as many if not more examples of people who are sharper and more intelligent the older they get.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Then feel free to die at whatever age you believe is right. I disagree and have no desire or intention of death before 150. If Technology helps me achieve that, then you can darn well bet I will take advantage of it.



And you can find just as many if not more examples of people who are sharper and more intelligent the older they get.
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You're going to be such a drain on society. I say we Logan's Run this shit.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
You're going to be such a drain on society. I say we Logan's Run this shit.
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Already happening in the UK.

When you go in hospital, you can be put on a "care pathway" without being told or your relatives being informed.
One example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Care_Pathway_for_the_Dying_Patient
They withdraw nutrition and you quickly die.
Its used on people who would easily recover or werent in that bad shape to begin with.
Its an absolute scandal yet its allowed to happen without recourse.

Then there are the badly run hospitals where patients needlessly die, you have to wonder if a similar thing is happening there as well !
One example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-repeated-warnings-high-mortality-rates.html

Madness!!
 
We had to do a head transplant when we moved in.




The toilet in the front bath was ugly.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
You're going to be such a drain on society. I say we Logan's Run this shit.
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With how nano technology and transplant technology are advancing that will eventually cease being true. Please note I did not say I plan on being alive at 150 and senile and unhealthy. Being alive at that age and effectively unable to do anything is essentially the same as being dead, actually worse as you are aware of it.
 
cool, but I'd rather see money/time invested in nanotech that's able to keep a person healthy/active/thinking for 100 years, vs doing the chop chop on their head and expecting everything to be okay.

As i understand it 'aging' is just your body experiencing the changes due to the inherent errors in the billions of trillions of copies of DNA/cells that is has to make over your lifetime.

Would be awesome if we were able to have a master copy of our DNA in young form, and an army of nano bots in our blood making sure any errors are fixed as they happen. I wouldn't mind being 100 years old but with the body/experiences/finances of a 100 year old :)
 
Nenu said:
Already happening in the UK.

When you go in hospital, you can be put on a "care pathway" without being told or your relatives being informed.
One example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Care_Pathway_for_the_Dying_Patient
They withdraw nutrition and you quickly die.
Its used on people who would easily recover or werent in that bad shape to begin with.
Its an absolute scandal yet its allowed to happen without recourse.

Then there are the badly run hospitals where patients needlessly die, you have to wonder if a similar thing is happening there as well !
One example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-repeated-warnings-high-mortality-rates.html

Madness!!
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this happens in the US all the time, just it's typically your family making the decision. Honestly I trust a doctor before most of my family in that situation.
 
They are killing many people who would otherwise not die soon and without any consent.
Some patients families found out and took them home where they recovered.
Many sections of the NHS are not to be trusted, I've had experience first hand of this, its all about money, targets and how good they look to their bosses.

Even though the patient may have the ability to comprehend what is happening, they dont ask you if you want to die, they dont let your family know either.
What is there to trust here?
And if you do want to die, they refuse it, leaving you to travel to Switzerland to end your life.
Its back assward and should be illegal.
 
That is what makes no sense to me. They talk about how it's easy and not painful. Umm, I would think by removing fluids (like they do here in the US as well) would be a PRETTY damn painful way to die.

I mean your body basically SLOWLY dies, your organs fail and start to shut down.

To me that is less humane of a way to let someone die then how we treat animals. You always hear people saying "Oh put him down, it's the "Humane" thing to do when your pet has some terrible disease and is in constant pain with no recovery, yet a person, oh no we can't let them make the choose to die (like in Switzerland) where they can choose when to go, say goodbye, and then leave quickly and painlessly.

Even inmates on death row are killed more humanely then people in the hospital.
 
Canavero told U.S. News that should he receive the necessary funding – about $30 million – the surgery would be possible within two years.
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I see. :rolleyes:
 
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