First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist - Polidicks

[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;45854725]I have a hard time seeing what this could be actually used for, if anybody has an idea please explain it to me.[/QUOTE] bad body? just buy a convict, cut his head off and transplant yours onto his [editline]31st August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=woolio1;45854766]Saving people who have sustained horrible body mutilation including, but not limited to, bisection, shrapnel wounds, gaping holes, partial maceration, etc. Basically, any problem that would render the patient's body unusable, or would kill the patient if they were still connected to it.[/QUOTE] i have a hard time rationalising that because most people would probably want to die instead of being a severed head

My head on someone else's body means I can never masturbate again. I don't want some other guy jacking me off, not that there's anything wrong with that.

[img]http://www.ss13.eu/wiki/images/c/c3/MMI.png[/img] ?

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;45855422]My head on someone else's body means I can never masturbate again. I don't want some other guy jacking me off, not that there's anything wrong with that.[/QUOTE] It's not even going to be your own dick so that argument is invalid. Anyway it'll be your body.

[QUOTE=Sableye;45855295]bad body? just buy a convict, cut his head off and transplant yours onto his [editline]31st August 2014[/editline] i have a hard time rationalising that because most people would probably want to die instead of being a severed head[/QUOTE] Well, they wouldn't be a severed head, they'd be on the body.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45854901]ethics, my good man. Not to mention that anybody who ever tried that would probably end up in prison or something because I don't see that as being ethically acceptable for a lot of stakeholders.[/QUOTE] People in power don't believe in ethics.

[img] http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7mglsoA871qajhjfo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1409605936&Signature=nyEAHuRaJUSajkioTgBgm%2FQKBRk%3D#_=_[/img] Hey scientists 1996 called to say hello

So, can we do this with Stephen Hawking?

Attaching the brain to the spinal cord is like... Well, imagine you have a bundle of tiny cables, all the same color. You cut the bundle, shuffle the cables around, and then try attaching it back. And if even a single one of those cables is mispaired, you get impaired function of something or other, while something else jerks randomly by itself.

[QUOTE=kevaughan;45855949]So, can we do this with Stephen Hawking?[/QUOTE] AFAIK it's an issue with the conductivity of the neurons throughout his brain, starting in his motor cortex, so this would have no effect

[QUOTE=Jrose14;45854992]They have all their former memories from past lives. Also licking them sends you back in time. You can't find logic in a sci fi cartoon.[/QUOTE] Yeah, just don't think about it. It's just one of those wacky, absurdist comedy sci-fi's with no logic like Hitchhiker's or Dr. Who.

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;45855173]Like I said, it'll just be way to hard to get a donor whose body is in good enough shape to actually successfully donate the body. People usually aren't in very good shape when they die, unless they've been shot in the head or something. Then there's the issue of the recipient needing a body that's the same age/level of maturity, otherwise hormones would totally fuck you up[/QUOTE] Well, obviously the main donors would be brain dead people.

I'm getting some creepy Count Zero vibes from this

Transplant my head onto the body of an underwear model pls.

Will there be try before you buy bodies? I want to give them a full test run before I decide on the right one.

[QUOTE=Karmah;45856303]AFAIK it's an issue with the conductivity of the neurons throughout his brain, starting in his motor cortex, so this would have no effect[/QUOTE] Isn't it ALS or something related? If he was simply paralyzed below the neck (paraplegic), that would be a different story.

so would the body be able to function as it did beforehand? for example movements wouldn't be sluggish because of the change in brains connections with all the other parts of the new body?

[QUOTE=Primigenes;45855002]Why the fuck would you want to be a head in a jar?[/QUOTE] depends if its like futurama, those heads aren't the actual people they're clones with all the same memories of the people they are clones of, except for some people that did live long enough to have the head-in-jar technology, so they probably have some stuff implanted to make them not feel bad about it

Oh god, what if they accidentally put someone's head on backwards

[QUOTE=Waffle Lord;45857671]Oh god, what if they accidentally put someone's head on backwards[/QUOTE] kiss my front-ass

[QUOTE=Waffle Lord;45857671]Oh god, what if they accidentally put someone's head on backwards[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/502-073.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=autodesknoob;45854618]wouldnt that be a body transplant?[/QUOTE] Nah. Head transplant. The smaller part is being transplanted onto the bigger part.

Science has gotten strange.

[QUOTE=Waffle Lord;45857671]Oh god, what if they accidentally put someone's head on backwards[/QUOTE] [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10570507_825014914185581_8626751662352637824_n.jpg?oh=537f098c92bdf6bffb2bd5bb387ca7e7&oe=5476C5DB&__gda__=1417650097_aaa799a6824540585b63d72e9fbba20c[/img]

im so much closer to my dream of being raiden woo

[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;45858138][img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10570507_825014914185581_8626751662352637824_n.jpg?oh=537f098c92bdf6bffb2bd5bb387ca7e7&oe=5476C5DB&__gda__=1417650097_aaa799a6824540585b63d72e9fbba20c[/img][/QUOTE] An excellent use [sp]bastardization[/sp] of cloning and head transplanting

[QUOTE=autodesknoob;45854618]wouldnt that be a body transplant?[/QUOTE] I'd say it depends on what you're excha no wait, yeah, body transplant. "No wait, I want a new head in my body. Yeah, look at me over there, with a nice head." [editline]1st September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;45858138][img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10570507_825014914185581_8626751662352637824_n.jpg?oh=537f098c92bdf6bffb2bd5bb387ca7e7&oe=5476C5DB&__gda__=1417650097_aaa799a6824540585b63d72e9fbba20c[/img][/QUOTE] Isn't that the same guy who tells everyone to not trust anyone, not even themselves?

My question is, why would anyone want this?

If this could be adapted so that a robotic body could be hooked into and fully-controlled by an organic head, then needing an artificial mind for a robotic being would be no longer necessary. All you'd need with the connections are sorted out is an artificial nutrient/oxygen/energy-feeding system to keep the head alive and healthy. Hell, if you can figure out how to construct a safe and stable environment for the brain, how to remove it alive and unharmed, and how to hook its sensory and motor control inputs/outputs directly into the body, you could ditch the vestigial head entirely. With some genetic engineering on the brain, you could even delay, stop or repair the effects of aging on the organ itself, therefore making it just as immortal as its body. With either a removed head or a removed brain plugged into a mechanical body, you could make a human being go from fully-organic to roughly 85-95% synthetic. Without having to cater to all of the many needs of the human body, excepting the basic needs of the head/brain, we could easily travel space and visit other planets with very little danger to ourselves. As a result of this surgical procedure becoming possible, we've created the next big stepping-stone to human immortality. Fuck, this medical and scientific advancement is so awesome. Can't even begin to describe how excited I am that I'll potentially get to have surgery done before the end of the century, and live forever as a brain-controlled robot.

[QUOTE=TurboSax;45858663]If this could be adapted so that a robotic body could be hooked into and fully-controlled by an organic head, then needing an artificial mind for a robotic being would be no longer necessary. All you'd need with the connections are sorted out is an artificial nutrient/oxygen/energy-feeding system to keep the head alive and healthy. Hell, if you can figure out how to construct a safe and stable environment for the brain, how to remove it alive and unharmed, and how to hook its sensory and motor control inputs/outputs directly into the body, you could ditch the vestigial head entirely. With some genetic engineering on the brain, you could even delay, stop or repair the effects of aging on the organ itself, therefore making it just as immortal as its body. With either a removed head or a removed brain plugged into a mechanical body, you could make a human being go from fully-organic to roughly 85-95% synthetic. Without having to cater to all of the many needs of the human body, excepting the basic needs of the head/brain, we could easily travel space and visit other planets with very little danger to ourselves. As a result of this surgical procedure becoming possible, we've created the next big stepping-stone to human immortality. Fuck, this medical and scientific advancement is so awesome. Can't even begin to describe how excited I am that I'll potentially get to have surgery done before the end of the century, and live forever as a brain-controlled robot.[/QUOTE] *almost forever, everything degrades with use, even your brain, and it happens faster than it heals, you will probably live much longer than in a human body and have a MUCH reduced chance of cancer, not ingesting processed foods and possibly shielded from all kinds of radiation. Damn, I want to be a space station Then again I think immortality can become possible through genetic engineering or possibly even using nanotechnology, like a swarm of nanobots injected into your brain that automatically detects dying braincells and fixes them, thus eliminating the aging of the brain.