Strictly Science Question...?

Question

Alright this may sound wierd but I was just wondering (I'm not a sicko):

Let's say you try to make a Frankinstein of sorts. You have a fresh brain, all the organs, and a recently decesed body. The brain, heart, intestants, etc are all working and the body has not decomposed yet. You have a lot of blood that u're pumping through the veins. Give a surge of energy (with all organs and such connected) and could the person come back to life?
This is basically just a regular person, eqipped with everything that real person has, and could be said to have died just for a few seconds and the doctor brought him back to life. It's the same thing - u got a person who died and you're bringing him to life.

This question doesn't mean I wanna try this; it's a question to make u think.

Answer 1

It wouldn't work.

Hypothetically speaking, it's *possible*.

However, practically speaking, it can't be done at our present level of technology.
You're partially right in your assertion; you could put a human body together almost like constructing a machine.
There are other considerations, though.

First, there's the immune system. You'd have to make sure all the body parts were compatible, and even then, you'd have to give the resulting person immunosuppresent drugs so that all of his body parts wouldn't start rejecting each other. It's basically the same deal as when you have a transplanted organ.

Second, putting a human together isn't as simple as it sounds.
When you put together a machine, you have to plug in everything correctly if you want it to work. The parts have to be assembled right, the wires have to be connected to the right places, etc.
Putting together a human is actually very similar, but much...much more difficult.
The parts of a human body - especially those involving the brain and spine - are connected in very complicated, intricate ways. And many of those are microscopic; you can't even see the connections.

Aside from the bizarreness of it all, that's partly why no one has ever even attempted a brain transplant. It wouldn't work; it's just too complicated, too difficult to actually be successfully done at our present level of technology.

The brain part is tricky, too. The brain isn't like a liver; a matter of minutes without oxygen, and it's toast. You can't put a brain on ice quite the same way you can with other organs.

Maybe someday.

Answer 2

It would be impossible to hook the parts of multiple people together to the point that everything would function with modern surgical techniques. Especially not the nervous system. Even if you could, most likely a couple of the vital organs would be rejected. There's a significant failure rate for the transplant of a single organ, and even people who have successful transplants have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.

Let's just say the body was physically viable. If brain activity had ceased or the brain had at least been damaged enough (which doesn't take long), no amount of electricity would help. However, a jolt and a shot of epinephrine can restart a stopped heart if the body is otherwise already living.

Answer 3

What if you got a pump to take the place of the heart. A supercomputer that can think for itself to take the place of the brain. A generator to supply all energy demands, negating the need to have a digestive system. A hydraulic powered body and then the main switch was flicked on? It's virtually the same question that I'm asking except that I'm using inorganic components as opposed to organic. What we're both asking is, "what is it that makes something 'alive'?"

Answer 4

Nope, wouldn't work. You forget that life cannot be created from non-life.

The only reason that people can apparently come back to life under medical intervention, is that they are not really dead. Science will say that if the heart stops beating then the person is dead. Not so, strictly speaking. There is life energy (bioenergy) in every living creature, and when this energy is depleting, sometimes a jolt of electrical energy can prompt bioenergy to replicate once more. However, electrical energy is not able to entirely act like bioenergy, which is why if there is no bioenergy, and no ability of the living creature to create bioenergy, then the creature is dead, and short of supernatural intervention, will remain so.

Answer 5

NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL!

first, the bring would die for the lack of oxygen. it takes only ten minutes for the bring to die once it doesnt have oxygen. once the person dies and u harvest the brain. by the time u open the skull's of both "patients" and transfer it, it's gonna be more than 30. and two, u'd be cutting the spinal cord. and once that thing is cut, it's bye bye for sure. and it's not like u can pull the braing with the spinal cord because it would need to come out with all the nerves and plexuses and stuff. not possible, u would have to disect nerve by nerve to attept at having a viable braing. the person donating the braing would basically have to be partially alive while u take out the nerves. because if not, u would have to keep them alive. if not by their own lungs and heard, then by artifiacial ones. meaning, they're still breathing and their heart still beating. that would just be sick, painful, and unethical. no surgeon would ever do that.

Answer 6

The biggest problem would be the brain wouldn't be able to function with the body. It'd also be damned nearly impossible to bring the person back to life even if everything was anatomically correct and intact. If somehow you brought them back (which if we advance enough, it will be) the person would still be brain dead, because you can not, EVER, jump start the brain. The heart? Sure, but not the brain.

Answer 7

No single living creature has ever come back from the dead, ever. Maybe if the parts and the brain were frozen, and somehow technology existed that allowed you to properly connect everything. But now you are talking about transplanting organs, you are not creating life out of nothing, you are merely transplanting live organs.

Answer 8

If you had the technology to maintain the organs in a living state the body would likely come to life without the need for any surge of energy, however it would immediatley begin killing itself as the various organs were rejected.

Answer 9

Given the current technology and our understanding, it seems to be quite impossible. Depending on your relative opinion, life either cannot be created, or we do not have the ability to establish a stable, functioning neuro net for the brain. However, if these problems are overcomed, then it could be entirely possible that we could create life from the dead.

Answer 10

The problem is that a brain will die (or at least become a vegetable) with extreme speed. If you could manage to keep the brain in 100% I do not see why this wouldn't be possible.