Can you transplant a head to another body - Max G. Levy
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Date: 2024-06-04
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eee1925
I read Dog Man comic books when I was younger, wrote by the same author who made Captain Underpants about a crime fighting cop and police dog who failed to defuse a bomb and got blown up. They were rushed to a hospital where the human officer had a dying head (but a relatively uninjured body) and the dog's body was in a critical (dog's head was fine though, the nurse had the bright idea to saw off the dog's head and attach it to the cop's body (A Children's Book btw) and so a crime fighting superhero was born!
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I read Dog Man comic books when I was younger, wrote by the same author who made Captain Underpants about a crime fighting cop and police dog who failed to defuse a bomb and got blown up. They were rushed to a hospital where the human officer had a dying head (but a relatively uninjured body) and the dog's body was in a critical (dog's head was fine though, the nurse had the bright idea to saw off the dog's head and attach it to the cop's body (A Children's Book btw) and so a crime fighting superhero was born!
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csenel
I think mentioning a philosophical question such as mind body problem was unnecessary. We already have examples with brain implants where patients control various systems with their minds. It was useful as a thought experiment in the past but no longer relevant with advances in science. I was also really worried towards the end that they would mention some nonsense like soul.
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I think mentioning a philosophical question such as mind body problem was unnecessary. We already have examples with brain implants where patients control various systems with their minds. It was useful as a thought experiment in the past but no longer relevant with advances in science. I was also really worried towards the end that they would mention some nonsense like soul.
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DoneDragon1
The head is the command center(as shown in the monkey experiment. So it becomes obvious that the body is more of a vehicle. My worry would be more that if body changes become a norm then people start to abuse their bodies more because I can always just swap out bodies
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The head is the command center(as shown in the monkey experiment. So it becomes obvious that the body is more of a vehicle. My worry would be more that if body changes become a norm then people start to abuse their bodies more because I can always just swap out bodies
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bharatbondu
Would it be possible to do this experiment in a computer simulator
Writing a code to mimic two human bodies with psychological and physiological functioning and them performing the switch to see how the transplanted bodies would respond in simulation
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Would it be possible to do this experiment in a computer simulator
Writing a code to mimic two human bodies with psychological and physiological functioning and them performing the switch to see how the transplanted bodies would respond in simulation
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AANasseh
Head transplants combined with human cloning are probably the best science fiction possibility for human life extension. Just as Bush stopped progress in cloning research religious ethics remains the stumbling block in this area of progress.
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Head transplants combined with human cloning are probably the best science fiction possibility for human life extension. Just as Bush stopped progress in cloning research religious ethics remains the stumbling block in this area of progress.
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HeruWilliams
I love this music so odd and uncanny. Making the listener feel unease it’s incredibly unique and unsettling. There are some inquisitive undertones that fit the video quite well but. I already feel like it’s October.
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I love this music so odd and uncanny. Making the listener feel unease it’s incredibly unique and unsettling. There are some inquisitive undertones that fit the video quite well but. I already feel like it’s October.
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TheMikadoOfLondon
Maybe there's something wrong with my moral compass, but if Person A's body cannot be saved, and Person B is, say, a condemned criminal or a mobile phone snatcher, I don't see what's so bad about the idea
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Maybe there's something wrong with my moral compass, but if Person A's body cannot be saved, and Person B is, say, a condemned criminal or a mobile phone snatcher, I don't see what's so bad about the idea
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muhammadkareem166
The self is not the brain nor the body, it's both
You reside in the connection your whole body uses to speak to itself
However the concept of this surgery is very mind boggling and interesting
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The self is not the brain nor the body, it's both
You reside in the connection your whole body uses to speak to itself
However the concept of this surgery is very mind boggling and interesting
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GermanZindro
A very interesting topic and video that was absolutely ruined by annoying creepy music. I get that it's a questionable topic, but the music reallx isn't neccessary for more than the first 30 seconds.
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A very interesting topic and video that was absolutely ruined by annoying creepy music. I get that it's a questionable topic, but the music reallx isn't neccessary for more than the first 30 seconds.
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brockwidmann9210
The self is an illusion. It's just something, someone, new. We are dying and being reborn every moment, inheriting the memories of past dead selves.
But really, it's all just the blobject.
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The self is an illusion. It's just something, someone, new. We are dying and being reborn every moment, inheriting the memories of past dead selves.
But really, it's all just the blobject.
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arusu6478
It’s one of those fascinating yet horrifying aspects of life. You could technically create an immortal being with this theory. But would it be the same individual But hey, who knows Stay curious
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It’s one of those fascinating yet horrifying aspects of life. You could technically create an immortal being with this theory. But would it be the same individual But hey, who knows Stay curious
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evilpanky
The music was perfect for this. I'm surprised that the video didn't touch on the implications of making those who can afford it (reasonably and with respect to body aging) immortal.
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The music was perfect for this. I'm surprised that the video didn't touch on the implications of making those who can afford it (reasonably and with respect to body aging) immortal.
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sushilskolia
i believe in growing a whole new body for the dying person would not hurt ethics. still it requires more efforts from scientist's side. but will give it a try.
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i believe in growing a whole new body for the dying person would not hurt ethics. still it requires more efforts from scientist's side. but will give it a try.
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DGsynchroman
so, are we our councious self with intelligence. or are we the organs that can be transplanted to extend another living body.
See addendum: [Ship of Theseus]
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so, are we our councious self with intelligence. or are we the organs that can be transplanted to extend another living body.
See addendum: [Ship of Theseus]
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crayonzii
As a Kid I loved a book Professor Dowell’s head about an amputated head of a man living on its own. Turns out it wasn’t completely impossible.
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As a Kid I loved a book Professor Dowell’s head about an amputated head of a man living on its own. Turns out it wasn’t completely impossible.
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GrassesOn97
What did Jeff Goldblum say once, Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
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What did Jeff Goldblum say once, Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
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leobottaro
I think the unsettling music was completely unnecessary, distracting away from the ethical and scientific questions. Great video otherwise
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I think the unsettling music was completely unnecessary, distracting away from the ethical and scientific questions. Great video otherwise
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kyrectx2
i definitely think that we are minds with a body
just a little person up there controlling phalanges and appendages with a joystick
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i definitely think that we are minds with a body
just a little person up there controlling phalanges and appendages with a joystick
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annpendleton
Monkey tried to bite the surgeon's arm. I would have thought he would have tried to bite the surgeon's head off. Just sayin'.
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Monkey tried to bite the surgeon's arm. I would have thought he would have tried to bite the surgeon's head off. Just sayin'.
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