I have been curious about this for ages. If for some reason you had to have a new brain would you have memories of your own life or the memories of the doners past life.
If you get your own memories back with the doners brain, how is this possible when your brain stores the everything?
2007-01-10 14:29:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Danny,
What an interesting question.
You would have to become the person whose brain was transplanted into you. You wouldn't suddenly be Danny with other memories, you would be, say, Harvey with a different body. Danny would no longer exist.
The eyes that would open after the operation would't be Danny's eyes, they would be Harvey's. Harvey wouldn't recognized himself in the mirror because he'd see a whole different person. Harvey would think that his hands worked differently, his voice sounded differently, and when someone called Danny's name, some old friend who hasn't seen him in years, Harvey-in-Danny wouldn't know this person at all. To Harvey, this person is a stranger. To the person, Danny is just...weird. He sounds like Danny, he looks like Danny, but he doesn't act like Danny. He even likes different music and food.
Since the brain contains the memories, the personality, the self, a brain transplant would be quite interesting for the brain (person)transplanted into the body. It would be like opening his eyes on a different planet, a different life. That would take a while to get used to, I would imagine.
If it was done on a regular basis, it wouldn't take long for someone to go more than just a little crazy.
Happily, it can't be done...yet.
2007-01-10 18:17:38 · answer #1 · answered by eutychusagain 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Definitely you would have all the donor's brain memories if ever a brain transplant is feasible.
In a futuristic manner we can imagine 1the possibility of deleting the transplanted memories 2. downloading the recipient's own memory after the latter has been stored in some way prior to the surgery.
I have personnally been involved with Cardiac transplantation for many years and have ,as everybody else , witnessed some of today's technological advances.
I sincere believe that the future may be sooner than expected.
Good Luck.
2007-01-11 03:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably not as simple as any of the answers are suggesting.
Current research in neuroscience indicates that the memory can also be contained with the rest of the body. It's hard to describe here because the mechanism isn't understood, just that there's reasonable evidence of a sort of holographic cellular memory.
The implications for your hypothetical situation is that it's probably more of an interaction between brain and body than just brain.
Transplant recipients apparently display habits and traits that were particular to their donor. If that's true, it does suggest that there would be some sort of interaction between the two.
2007-01-11 06:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't be getting a brain transplant the donor as you called him would be getting a body transplant.You would be the donor and not thinking anything.
2007-01-10 22:46:04 · answer #4 · answered by Debbie O 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don't do brain transplants but if they did you'd have the donors memory unless they figgered out a way to get your memories on a sim card and transfer it to your new brain. They'd have to format you new brain first though.
2007-01-10 22:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by Bobbie 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's why they make you eat lots of mashed potatoes after surgery, mush brain.
2007-01-10 22:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by BUM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't think they could do brain transplants
2007-01-10 22:32:31 · answer #7 · answered by tearsforcoldplay 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
donors
2007-01-10 22:37:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I THINK YOU NEED A BRAIN INPLANT!!! LOL
2007-01-11 00:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋