Head Transplants

Science doesn't need morality. Look at the Church of Christ, Scientist. Those people have no morality.

We are assuming spirits are only 'created' during the natural birthing process though. We could be completely wrong in our assumptions with that. I agree with what darklanser said, that our souls can 'splice' and become copies of themselves. This may be a function that ensures our own survival.

Most Cryogenic companies do in fact freeze the head(or the option of freezing the whole body) which results in the rupture(death) of every cell in the body.. They can keep a person or body part frozen indefinately. When asked about this cell damage, the spokes-persons for the cryogenics company that was being interviewed said that they are counting on future technology(maybe nano-technology?) to repair the damaged/dead cells.

Thats interesting groovyguru.

The soul in my opinion is your complete body as a whole. For it to be operational it needs a host. Because without a heart you wouldn't get blood to the brain, without your stomach you couldn't get food, ect, ect. All these elements come together to form you as a human. You can take away parts and add parts, liver transplant, heart transplant which dont affect the soul but you need all parts to be there, no matter where they come from. Because they have to serve a functionm to keep the body alive.

Your brain is whats responsible for collecting information from the body and translating it into what we can understand. The memory for your soul (complete body) from sounds, to sense of touch, sight, our brains are recording everything. Even things we cannot nessesarily sense on a concious level. If we can preserve our memories we can preserve our feelings, traits, attributes, skills, thoughts and experiences until we find a new host.

You're not going to have to worry about this issue for a very long time, guys. A "head transplant" involves severing the spinal cord, and there's no treatment we have that regrows spinal cords.

The website assures us that "paralyzed people" (who, if you'll remember, have suffered spinal cord injury of some sort) would benefit from "head transplants" ... ingoring the fact that actually cutting their heads off to transplant them is greater damage than they've already sustained.

No. Individual nerve growth is possible, as is repair. But if we'd been able to fix spinal cords, Christopher Reeve would be up and running around and riding horseback again.

No. Individual nerve growth is possible, as is repair. But if we'd been able to fix spinal cords, Christopher Reeve would be up and running around and riding horseback again

Actually you can't regrow nerves anyways, that's why as you get older you loose feeling in places you have burner or hurt a lot (mostly hands) and that's why babies are so sensitive

THERE'S AN EXCELLENT MOVIE ABOUT THIS..
FROM THE LATE 70'S EARLY 80'S...

I can't remember the name of it...

well it's sort of this topic..

I white guy has a black guy's head attached to his body... but the white guys head is still there too...

it's hilarious... if I remember correctly, the white guy was racist and this was his punishment, to have a black guys head attached to his body...

anyone remember this ?

This topic has come up before, slightly differently.

My comments were that the operation is redundant. It will be possible to transfer entire consciousnesses in perpetuity into another medium, before medical science ever gets to the point of making a head transplant realisable.

Otherwise expressed: Millions who are alive today will never die.

Which leads to the most fundamental legal problem in 80 years time: the rights of machines.

The B-grade horror flick being referenced is The Thing With Two Heads, with Ray Milland. It is a black comedy. The motorcycle chase scenes are best.

Assuming souls are an actuality, and if they are an aura or life-force as stated previously by another member... would the two souls that have come together in a new living being be fighting over control of it? Would the peron mentally be retarded? Schitzophrenia? Multiple personality disorder? Inner torment? That would be so #ed up.

You get to heaven with your two souls and stand at the gate then that disciple guy goes, "well insite, your hippocampus, liver, left arm, right leg, left testicle and left lung can all go to heaven; the rest of you must be forever tormented in the pits of hell."

You'd be the most freakish looking angel in heaven.

well the problem of ethics is soon to be solved: our government has gone mad

Florida Suspends Constitutional Right (Forum)

news.bbc.co.uk...

Well now face transplants are being conducted, either way, well is this ethical, once again, look at what MJ looks like now. Oh well this goes right along with the gay marriage.