if it is the lack of fresh oxygenated blood to the brain, then why couldn't we pump fresh oxygenated blood to their brain through their juggler vein and any other major veins or arteries and then would the head stay alive??? why haven't we tried this with prisoners of war as an experiment?
2006-09-20 21:26:21 · 7 answers · asked by Hank 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I am sure we have the technology to pump fresh oxygenated blood to the brain by now
2006-09-20 21:27:08 · update #1
I think I just may become the next Dr. Jekyll
2006-09-20 21:28:33 · update #2
what the hell is ATP?
2006-09-20 21:30:57 · update #3
I'm sure ATP is nothing important anyways
2006-09-20 21:33:09 · update #4
thanks crazy cat, I will further investigate that as it seems it may be a big flaw in my next experiment
2006-09-20 21:34:56 · update #5
Well it comes with the fact that we ned oxygenated blood AND the cells have to have a suply of ATP being pumped to them.
With out both ATP and oxygen a cell can not create the energy it needs to fuction and will die.
EDIT...
ATP is a chemical... that can be formed from the molicules that the boddy brakes ATP down into... It could be possable to use nanobots to create the ATP and ocygenize the blood....
But... would you realy whant to be a head with out a body? o.o
2006-09-20 21:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by CrazyCat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what causes lack of consciousness when the head is severed?
Umm try lack of blood, and then try shock.
Sure sure, we can connect the head to a sealed arteficial vascular system, that will just prolong the enivtiable. It has been proven that the human head once severed is still alive for 10 minutes or so even with no blood passing back and forth. Such was the reason for the humane Guillotine being condemned as a torture device and last time I checked even prisoners were still human and tortureing other humans regardless of their social, economical and/or political state of being falls under some sort of UN peace treaty regarding humanity and international/global laws relating to torture and human experiments . The mind still tries to talk, the mouth still tries to move, but no vocal cords or lungs to push the air out makes it a bit difficult. But I feel the pain sensors in magnitude shut off so there is no immediate register of pain until latter once the immediate rush of adrenaline wears out of the tissue it is stored in. Also, what would be your plan to keep the tissue of the severed head alive without any way to feed the tissue nutrients (no stomach and intestines and all) And hormones, sure sure some of the hormones are triggered in the brain, but what about the "receiving message" that other body parts produce once they receive the initiating hormone "message"?
You've been watching too much Futurama! :D
2006-09-21 04:42:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would probably be the loss of blood to the brain that causes loss of consciousness and death.
What you propose might work, but experimentation with prisoners of war would be a clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
2006-09-21 04:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by Warren D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently yours is still functioning on some primitive level...being disconnected and all ...you sound like one of those young Dr's that graduated from those Medical Schools in Mexico back in the 70's and 80's ... so you're from the
Taco Bell School Of Neurology..sounds like it!
2006-09-21 04:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by B'klyn Barracuda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats a weird, gross, sickening, but interesting question.
Maybe because of the cutting of the spinal cord?
But doing that to anyone would be just unhuman!
2006-09-21 04:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lack of body.
Where have all the cats gone???
Ohhhhhhh yeah.... headless experimenting.
2006-09-21 04:34:06 · answer #6 · answered by Duncarin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
email me when youve done that... very interesting.
2006-09-21 04:31:14 · answer #7 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋