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Ah, the ol’ head transplant scam is on deck again. Has the AI scam run out of steam already?
Wouldn't you need a willing participant as a donor..?
Willing?
Yeah I’m calling bullshit on this.
Aren't typical organ transplants fraught with issues? Like the body rejecting the organ?
How would this work with a head on another body?? I'd imagine it must be more difficult to force the body to accept the new head. I don't see any mention of this in the article.
Technically, I think it would be a body transplant, not a head transplant, and the transplanted organ would actually reject you since the immune system is part of the body, not the head.
I didn't call it a head transplant.. but yes that's what I was getting at. I would imagine that this needs something beyond immunosuppresants, not to mention how does the nervous system work? It can't be as simple as plug in and go.
Destroy the immune system and recreate it. I think you can do this will
Complete immune suppression, this isn't a step towards transplanting brains it's a step towards brain body separation and the eventual singularity.
Watch Ghost in the shell, you'll get it.
You would think if we had the ability to repair severed spinal neurons that we'd be doing it.
Last I heard, that part is currently just a bit 'magic', but they have some vague ideas. The processes I have heard about rely on an exceptionally sharp knife and a special glue for the spinal cords where anyone involved is either super secretive about what it is or claims it's something super basic. The transplant idea mostly seems to rely on severing it cleanly though, that is the usual excuse I hear about why it can't be used for other purposes like repairing spinal cords/etc.
Is this anti-guillotine technology??
It's the classic Reverse Guillotine.
Exclusive first photo of the procedure in action:
how nice, ultra billionaires can buy the body of some poor guy by promising to pay their families couple million bucks
I had an arsehole transplant once. The arsehole rejected me.
That's a bum deal.
My arsehole left me and now I’m full of shit!
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
Face transplantation I can understand, so maybe the reference to head transplantation is wishful thinking. Or macabre future-proofing.
Optimistically, it could be used to help match quadriplegics with brain dead donors. And be used to refine microsurgical processes that would help many with various levels of nerve damage. Presuming the donor body is able to be controlled by the head. I think this has been done with monkeys and the result was quadriplegic monkeys.
Pessimistically, it’s as you say, billionaire immortality.
Kind of starts to create a Ship of Theseus paradox with a human subjects and would be interesting to see what kind of psychology comes about when brains change bodies.
Realistically if we can completely sever a spinal cord and reattach it to a donor body we can heal most quadriplegics without replacing the body
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
I think you answered your own question - there's enough rich people prepared to throw money at longevity projects.
Yeah absolutely fucking no way I am letting a start up do surgery on any part of me.
Also I think it's hilarious that the article put the video in the form of a tweet... Which pulls with it the user context explaining that head transplants are not currently possible hahahah.
If I was going to die anyway, I wouldn't mind trying, even though I'm 99% sure it wouldn't work. I guess that's the target patient.
BrainBridge
Don't they mean body transplant?
This is some sci-fi horror stuff right here.
David Cronenberg is basing his next film on this. Or he should do anyway.
It's going to be the sequel to Face/Off - Head/Swap.