Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:19 pm

John_fi_Skye wrote:This is how I'd choose to look:
I think we should set CES and Zilla up like that :hehe:
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:20 pm

Heinlein already did this, you know.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:20 pm

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John_fi_Skye wrote:This is how I'd choose to look:
I think we should set CES and Zilla up like that :hehe:
Make it easy to punch him in the face. :tup:
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:20 pm

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:35 pm

This is silly but still creeped me out the first time I saw it...

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Post by John_fi_Skye » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:46 pm

The second guy certainly looked a bit sheepish....
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:46 pm

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Post by mistermack » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:58 pm

I don't know why, but the expression "a neuroscientist in Turin" immediately made me doubt what followed.

The Italians are a special breed.

Anyway, you could certainly connect up all the bits. But making it all work again is a different matter.
It's not like you have black wires, and red wires, and a wiring diagram. Each individual will have a different layout. It's not like making one car out of two identical halves.

All you can do it connect up as best you can, and hope some of it eventually works.
They haven't transplanted a mouse's head onto another mouse's body yet, and made it work. It's a different kettle of fish, altogether.
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Azathoth » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:35 pm

I wouldn't even want a meatbag. Full cyborg for me thanks
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by PsychoSerenity » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:34 pm

Azathoth wrote:I wouldn't even want a meatbag. Full cyborg for me thanks
Well the current heart and lung machines and replacements for other necessary organs, intake of food is fairly easy if you don't mind pre-processed supplements, but dialysis etc - the technology is still too big to be fitted into a normal sized humanoid robot body. So you'll have to be an eighteen ton, diesel powered, hydraulic robot tank. I hope that's OK?
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Post by Mysturji » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:49 pm

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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Mysturji » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:50 pm

mistermack wrote: It's a different kettle of fish, altogether.
It's been done. I don't think it'll catch on.
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jul 02, 2013 4:18 pm

As limbs, faces, internal organs and now, apparently, heads can be transplanted, one could, if minded, cobble together a person from the bits that were still warm at the morgue. I don't know why you would want to but I bet someone does it.....
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jul 02, 2013 6:20 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:As limbs, faces, internal organs and now, apparently, heads can be transplanted, one could, if minded, cobble together a person from the bits that were still warm at the morgue. I don't know why you would want to but I bet someone does it.....
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Re: Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

Post by mistermack » Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:09 am

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Azathoth wrote:I wouldn't even want a meatbag. Full cyborg for me thanks
Well the current heart and lung machines and replacements for other necessary organs, intake of food is fairly easy if you don't mind pre-processed supplements, but dialysis etc - the technology is still too big to be fitted into a normal sized humanoid robot body. So you'll have to be an eighteen ton, diesel powered, hydraulic robot tank. I hope that's OK?
Dunno about that.
You would only need to support the brain. Everything else is in the bin. So you wouldn't need much dialysis etc. It could all be smaller. Just a single blood maintenance unit, and a pump. Of course, the blood maintenance unit would have to be pretty clever. But not necessarlily all that big.
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