/sci/ - Science & Math

I really hope this works. If it can be shown that a head transplant on to a different body is possible, than we have shown that we can basically transplant anything to anything else. The main draw backs, we don't quite have the technology to re connect the spinal columns, we're close. And, then you have the issue of tissue rejection, the body is gonna say what the hell is that!


I don't see something like this becoming common practice though, people i think would much rather stay in their own bodies. And, the technology to cure everything and pause - reverse aging is not really that far off; both maybe by the mid 2030's.


Short term, the appeal of something like this would only be for some super old very wealthy guy who doesn't want to go, and doesn't want to bother with cryonics, Who'd be willing to sit there as a quadriplegic while we figure out how to reconnect the spinal columns. As to the tissue rejection issue, You're never gonna get around that. If you are stuck as that transplanted head, you are gonna need someone to figure out how to take your DNA, and clone a perfect genetic match of you, ideally completely headless to get around ethics issues, and somehow Fast Grow that to the age of at least the mid teens, and then take that head and place it on to that body.

I see the anti science tards have over run this thread. There is a very good reason radical science advancements have always taken place in the dark, sneaking around in graveyards, in cellars, in secret bunkers, in secret labs, etc.... Because if We listened to the naysayers Nothing would have ever gotten done. We'd still be living in mud huts listening to old women bark that building houses out of stone was crazy and would never work.


Anyhow, to the topic at hand. I really hope that it works. If it can be shown that a head transplant on to a different body is possible, than we have shown that we can basically transplant anything to anything else. The main draw backs, we don't quite have the technology to re connect the spinal columns, we're close though. And, then you have the issue of tissue rejection, the body is gonna say what the hell is that!

I don't see something like this becoming common practice though, people i think would much rather stay in their own bodies. And, the technology to cure everything and pause - reverse aging is not really that far off.

Short term, the appeal of something like this would be for some super old, very wealthy guy who doesn't want to go, and doesn't want to bother with the cryonics voodoo, Who'd be willing to sit there as a quadriplegic while we figure out how to reconnect the spinal columns. As to the tissue rejection issue, You're never gonna get around that. If you are suck as that transplanted head, you are gonna need someone to figure out how to take your DNA, and clone a perfect genetic match of you, ideally completely headless to get around ethics issues, and grow that to the age of at least the mid teens, and then take that head and place it on to that body.