Human head transplantation could become a reality in two years
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[QUOTE=.Lain;47223670]like two? the rest of this forum is full of psuedo intellectual people who think they know more than actual researchers[/QUOTE]
I think there are quite a few posters studying engineering or a similar scientific field, though.
Doesn't this mean that, theoretically, an individual faced with transplantation would have to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life?
Next up: Transplants onto robot bodies
[QUOTE=Orkel;47224608]In 50 years we'll have old rich dudes transplant their heads to young bodies for a few million bucks of pocket change.[/QUOTE]
In 50 years I hope we actually have some sort of ghost in the shell/rebrain technology instead of rudimentary transplants.
does this mean I can finally get head???
I don't know guys, I wouldn't lose my head over this news.
How the hell can they reach a level of precision that the individual neurons can connect in the right place? I highly doubt that this is totally feasible, as everyone has minor individual differences in neural development.
[QUOTE=Orkel;47224608]In 50 years we'll have old rich dudes transplant their heads to young bodies for a few million bucks of pocket change.[/QUOTE]lets hope it doesn't immediately go the sci-fi horror route of people getting kidnapped/murdered for some old shit to get another life.
Also when will they make the futurama head tanks. that is technology we need since if you can keep the person alive they can have a robot body.
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;47223945]Can't wait to see 90 year olds running around with bodies of teenagers.[/QUOTE]
They'd go around fucking like rabbits and we'd have another baby boom.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;47223599]The amount of rehab needed afterwards would be insufferable.. not to mention how dangerous the brain chemistry adapting to the body chemistry would be.. as well as the dangers of rejection.
The logistics are mindblowing.[/QUOTE]
brain cannot be rejected, it is ummune to it. Eyes, ears, everything else can though
[QUOTE=massaki;47223971]I legitimately wonder how they'd feel if they did something wrong on the first go of something like this. It'd be like replacing the CPU in your computer only to realize you've absolutely shorted every other component in the process, it's absolutely devastating when your PC wont boot after something like that, so I'm imagining the horror of it happening to a real human being. It's most likely on another scale from breaking your computer I guess.[/QUOTE]
I think it would be more like swapping the CPU while the PC is in sleep mode.
If the hardware survives, windows will pretty much guaranteed have a siezure.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;47224651]The nerve connections working out would be the biggest monkey wrench here as currently, as medical science stands, it's not possible to cure paralysis due to cord damage because of the absence of a means of neural regeneration. This is the biggest hurdle, to get the nerves to reconnect and to make sure that they can work once the connections are bridged. We're a long way off from this, other than the paper described where some chinese scientists apparently succeeded in doing this for a mouse. The procedure will remain a pipe dream unless somebody pioneers neural regrowth.[/QUOTE]
What if you just fill the spinal cord with shitloads if stem cells.
[QUOTE=k2.;47226286]lets hope it doesn't immediately go the sci-fi horror route of people getting kidnapped/murdered for some old shit to get another life.
Also when will they make the futurama head tanks. that is technology we need since if you can keep the person alive they can have a robot body.[/QUOTE]
I welcome my Titan overlords, beats this mundane human life.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;47225273]Doesn't this mean that, theoretically, an individual faced with transplantation would have to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life?[/QUOTE]
Same sort of deal with most organ transplants. It's one of the reasons 3D-printed or lab-grown organs are such a big deal.
Wouldn't it be a body transplant?
[QUOTE=Baron von Hax;47226990]Wouldn't it be a body transplant?[/QUOTE]
The head is smaller, but it's also the person proper. Could be either, I suppose.
But would we be attaching bodies onto heads or heads onto bodies?
[QUOTE=Sableye;47224458]This guy is greatly overstating the progress of medicine though, if we had the ability to repair spinal damage and nerve damage on this scale it would be more beneficial to use it curing paralysis instead of this. Additionally the cited monkey study was a failure not because they chose not to reconnect nerves they could not reconnect the nerves with the technology of the time[/QUOTE]
There's a difference between a clean cut and what generally happens in an accident.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;47224651]The nerve connections working out would be the biggest monkey wrench here as currently, as medical science stands, it's not possible to cure paralysis due to cord damage because of the absence of a means of neural regeneration. This is the biggest hurdle, to get the nerves to reconnect and to make sure that they can work once the connections are bridged. We're a long way off from this, other than the paper described where some chinese scientists apparently succeeded in doing this for a mouse. The procedure will remain a pipe dream unless somebody pioneers neural regrowth.[/QUOTE]
from what I can gather the goal is to make sure that you cut as precisely as possible, so the nerve cells AREN'T damaged. Then the major nerve pathways are reconnected one by one. Seems awfully difficult, also the size of the spinal cord and even the arrangement/placement of the nerve pathways might differ, although I'm not a neurologist.
I can't help but wonder if it'd be possible to put my brain into a female body or if the wiring is different at all.
Predictably, the trained biologist calls bullshit on this set of exaggerations:
[url]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/02/26/the-talk-of-head-transplants-is-completely-nuts/[/url]
pc GTA V could also be a reality in april.
[QUOTE=ridinmybike;47228620]pc GTA V could also be a reality in april.[/QUOTE]
Science has gone too far
Maybe head transplant will come first than GTA V
[QUOTE=ironman17;47224758]It'd probably still be a thing because of input lag, though that said it wouldn't matter if the tank pilot had poor reaction times. Unless we find a way to circumvent the oppressive doldrums of the lightspeed limit, input lag will still be a thing.[/QUOTE]
For something like a tank I don't think the lag would be much of an issue. Jamming is a far larger problem.
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The doctor in question.
Seriously, he looks like a stereotype evil doctor.[/QUOTE]
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looks like jack gruber from gotham
[QUOTE=Jacob_sword;47223677]I don't belive this wouldnt work every well. Cause the spinal cord is apart of your brain. I think you would have a better success rate if they transplanted the spinal cord along with the brain.[/QUOTE]
Ok Doctor Jacob. I'm sure you've got a lot more experience than the guy proposing the surgery.
This body transplant goes beyond amazing. This is one huge step forward for biological immortality.
We may not be able to make drugs which repair broken cell damage to earlier stages. But being able to transplant to another body is a big step. Imagine if one day we can grow a body and transplant the brain.
$10,000,000 is pocket change when you think about the possibilities of living forever.
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