If you transplanted a human brain into another animal, would it do the things that humans can do?

Question

or would nothing happen and its body just rejects it

Answer 1

like die? Transplants can only be done between creatures with similar dna.

Answer 2

lets suppose brain transplants become possible. and for some reason someone does a human-animal transplant. it is not our bodies which make us human but our minds the body just lets us get around, so you would have a human with an animal body and not a animal with a human brain.
ok the operation was asuccess, now you have to learn to control the new body in the same way as a baby learns to walk. eg you will have to learn to run much faster but using 4 legs.
also you would not have the animals natural instictive behavoir for example how to drink water by lapping with tongue or how to eat using your new mouth so you would have to practise.
if brain transplant ever become a reality it will be to save lives in much the same way as organ transplants are today, or to allow the rich to maintain a youthfull existance. however sooner or later someone will attempt a human-animal transplant, probably into a primate at first.

Answer 3

The animal's body is not physically capable of doing things that humans can. Also it's head might be too big or to small to contain a human brain. Yes its body would reject the brain.

Answer 4

No animal could survive such an operation, but let's pretend that some day the technology will allow it.
There are a few things that distinuish us from other animals. A major point of difference is having a hand with an opposable thumb. Human beings can play guitars; chimps and gorillas can't. This gives people incredible fine motor skills, and is the reason we have been able to make so many different kinds of tools.
And art. Neanderthals could make tools, but art was beyond them. We presume this includes music as well. Other kinds of animals make music, if you want to call it that - the melodious chirping of birds, the mysterious calls of the whale, the chorus of peeping frogs in the spring. But none of them can make jazz, or compose music on a piano. Or sing, for that matter. Our use of language also distinguishes us from other animals. It's not that other animals have no language - they clearly communicate with each other - but they don't have vocal cords, and that makes a huge difference.
Animals are also unable to care for their injured and sick. Dogs are plenty loyal and can fetch things for impaired people, but this is not the same thing as changing a soiled bed or treating a case of poison ivy. Dogs probably would do these things if they could, but even so it's unlikely that they would treat each other that well.

Answer 5

Humans have not exactly perfected the brain transplant. The animal would die, and the brain from the human is already dead anyway. It can't be revived.

Answer 6

It could do more or less than human being! It depends on the abilities of the animal you transplant the human brain into it !

Answer 7

Actually there are several passages in the bible that talk aout killing the unborn, and what God thinks of an unborn. There is nothing that literally says "No abortion" but there are many passages that state unborn are just as precious to God. For example: If man was to hurt a pregnant women, and the fetus was killed, than that man would get the same punishment(death sentance) as if the fetus was born and alive. So the bible cearly states that the death of a fetus is just like the death of a baby, and is punished the same. And that punishment back than was death.... There are also many passages that talk about how when you are a fetus in the womb, God sees you with the same value as if you were a baby. The bible talks about how even though a fetus isn't a full human, it is still a life in God's us, and that it should be in ours. ------- About your question on women and pregnancy. Yes women cannot always easily decide whether they want a baby or not, but this is the very reason why God says that we should be married when we first have sex. Because within a marriage, a baby is much more welcomed. In fact, the majority of children were not planned within marriages, but they are still loved equally because married couples expect that unplanned children might come around. And it's ok... because when you get married, there is a source of income and the couple usually want a child. This is why you wait until marriage for sex. Otherwise a bunch of teens are going to end up getting abortions, because they are sleeping with every guy they meet. And if a teenager is going to do that, than she needs to be on birth control and needs to take responsibility for not doing so, and getting pregnant. And yes, it is possible tocontrol your sex drive. Both men and women can control it, they just don't want to. And another problem is that sex is not taken as seriously as it should these days, because of the media and bad parenting. Science consideres a fetus a parasite, but you should know that science isn't always moral. Did you know science says a mentally disabled person is not fully human either? Should we kill them? A mentally disabled person can sometimes be completely dependent on his mother until the day he dies, much longer than a fetus. Should we kill them too? Some mentally disabled people are uncapable of comprehending pain, does that make it alright to kill them? Nope.... my point proven that science doesn't always equal morality. Because science itself would say that it's just as moral to kill a human as it is to kill an animal... yet we still don't allow human murders..... There is a reason why men don't bear children. Women are created to tolerate pain more, and to also deal with the crazy hormones that come with child bearing. Therefore you cannot compare men as childbearers, because it wouldn't make sense. Men were not created to handle psychological and phyiscal pain like women are. The whole point comes down to the fact that women were trusted by God to care for children. God didn't trust the men with children, he trusted the women with the children. Therefore women need to step up... God doesn't want us to sin, yet you cant blame him. He created us perfect, but humans messed up.... we can't blame God for the mistake of humans... God did nothing but love us, and make sure there was a way out of sin...

Answer 8

Nothing would happen because in order to transplant the brain the spinal nerves would have to be severed. Spinal nerves do not regrow and cannot be reattached. The person/animal would be crippled.

Answer 9

the body would reject the new organ and the body will cease to function. You can not transfer organ of different species.

Even with organ transplant between human poses danger of incompatibility, which result in function shutdown by the new organ.

Answer 10

When did you get a monkey brain transplant?

Answer 11

It wouldn't work at all. You can't repair or reattach brain nervous tissue (yet), and across species it wouldn't work because of size, chemistry, etc. The animal wouldn't even live through the operation because the heart wouldn't know to pump, the lungs wouldn't know to breathe, etc.