Brain transfer

Brady Kelly

Is that thread safe?

Chris Buckett

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Pete OHanlon

I assume that somebody started the transfer on her and then stopped for some reason.

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spsharma

or Vice versa.

Corinna John

Let's imagine... Your body is going to die of an disease or old age, but your brain is still healthy. So the doctors tranfer your brain into the 90% healthy body of a traffic victim who just broke his neck. You wake up in a new body, you see a foreign guy in the mirror and so on. When you finally leave the hospital, people on the street greet you and they ask how you survived your accident. How would it be to explain that you are somebody else? :rolleyes:

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spsharma

Yes, and suppose an exception. what is remained is NULL data on both the brains. :laugh:

hairy_hats

I know kids put transfers on their arms to look like tattoos but isn't this taking things too far?

Kastellanos Nikos

It has allready been done with monkeys some decades before.

blackjack2150

With no success.

szukuro

The complete news: "Controversy continued on Monday as surgeons successfully transplanted little Django's brain into a robot monkey body. Scientists now say human-to-robot brain transplants will be possible within ten years. On a sad note, however, Django died late Tuesday, after drinking his own urine." So the question is: "Would you put your brain in a robot body?"

DavidNohejl

That would give whole new meaning to "give someone brain".

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Kastellanos Nikos

I have seen it on a TV documentary. I don't remember much of the details, like date, place, and who did it. They were saying that after a few hours the monkey wake up and act somewhat normal. eat, play, etc...

cyberpunk_np

That is already possible. There is a chimp in Africa that has convinced others to live harmoniously and peacefully. Before the transplant, the chimp used conniving tricks to dispose of other powerful chimps in the jungle. The brain transplant succeded; last that I heard, the original brain of the chimp was transplanted to the incumbent president ruling one of the most powerful country on earth, the US. ;)

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Bradml

I wager the whole death thing would put some people off.

Dan Neely

Prakash Kalakoti wrote:

Yourbrain = Yourbrain + Mybrain; Mybrain = Yourbrain; // - Mybrain; Yourbrain = Yourbrain - Mybrain;

This doesn't work.

Mybrain  Yourbrain 
1        2
1        3
3        3
3        0

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

John M. Drescher wrote:

Although I know my brain would feel weird in a girls body.

Heinlein already did that one: I Will Fear No Evil[^];)

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Ashley van Gerven

Plus.. the bigger questions is: what's to be achieved by transplanting the brain into another body. The other person would have to agree to the swap. Why would would he/she agree to it, since the other would be "inferior" otherwise the other person wouldn't even want a body swap :). But ok maybe in some odd cases two persons prefer to own the other person's body. Let's say there was a physical and legal way to accomplish it, I wonder what the implications of that would be. The other option is that the person donating the brain is dead. But definition they aren't dead until the brain dies. So of what use is the brain? Can it can be revived? It starts to degenerate rapidly without blood flow. You can't keep it in a cooler box for a few hours like a liver or a heart! :doh:

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El Corazon

spsharma wrote:

what would be the implications

first of all, think on all the developers you have ever known, with all the eccentricies they have, many varying far and beyond any stereotype. Now take all that variety (and insanity/chaos) and imagine delivering one interface that correctly interfaces to, and reads from these people properly. Because before such technology ever gets out in the marketplace, some programmer somewhere is going to have to attempt it. Then someone will wonder why it doesn't work for anyone else. ;)

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