that is if such a thing were possible.
2007-06-24 21:40:29 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Do you mean my surviving brain and personality put into somebody else's body ? Very interesting. It depends on the body. About twenty years ago there was a movie about that kind of procedure. It was called "Seconds" and starred Rock Hudson.
2007-06-24 22:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Bomba 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think other people understood this incorrectly. A brain transplant would mean that your original body would receive a new brain, not your brain going to a new body.
After you undergo a brain transplant, "you" would no longer be you. So your view on your own existence before the transplant would no longer exist after the transplant. It would be a completely different mind. It's a little different than a heart transplant or any other organ for that matter because your brain is the only organ that thinks.
I would definitely not do this. But it is cool to think about taking your brain to a different body, so long as it is a good body.
2007-06-25 00:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by Trevin M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a problem with your terminology. There can be no such thing as a brain transplant. "You" are your brain and would be the recipient, not the organ being transplanted. The donor would be the brain dead person into whose otherwise functioning body your brain would be surgically placed. It would be a whole body transplant with your brain as the recipient. It's an interesting concept isn't it. Perhaps someday we will be able to bioenginner cloned bodies without brains and transfer our brains into them!
2007-06-25 16:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by Vinay K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Assuming you're talking about moving my brain from my old body into a younger body and living on in that flesh, yeah, I'd say I probably would. I think it would be interesting getting to live life all over again in a different body, especially with all the knowledge and wisdom I'd accumulated the first time around. It's like they say, youth is wasted on the young! When you're young, you just don't appreciate it at the time.
2007-06-24 23:25:27 · answer #4 · answered by Veno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like in that Robert Heinlein book? What was it called? "Fear No Evil" or something like that? Hmmmm...probably not. But when I'm 92 and dying I'll probably sing a different tune! Ha ha ha!
2007-06-24 21:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all it's a cool avatar
the ageing proteins has gotta do lot wid it,there are five diff types of it each related with ageing and d proper functioning of the brain'a genetic property that's what it is
2007-06-24 22:44:36 · answer #6 · answered by alpenliebe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worth a shot..maybe..umm... but are you really you or are ou donating your body to some other person (the other brain)... ? maybe not..
2007-06-25 19:26:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm its not possible, bcuz in order for your brain to be put in the other body, the other brain would need to be removed killing the body
2007-06-24 21:44:15 · answer #8 · answered by summer-is-hot 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes / most definitely
2007-06-25 04:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by hotdogsarefree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not?
2007-06-25 00:18:19 · answer #10 · answered by God 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋