Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

[Clinton Huxley]

According to a neuroscientist in Turin, human head transplants are now "technically possible". Given that, who's body would you like to transplant your head onto?

http://qz.com/99413

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Jessica Alba's.

[Clinton Huxley]

I've got her number, I'll see if she is busy.....

[Trinity]

Ok, so who decides whose head is going to replace yours or whose body your head may be fixed onto? It's not really the sort of thing one plans for is it?!!

[Clinton Huxley]

Ok, so who decides whose head is going to replace yours or whose body your head may be fixed onto? It's not really the sort of thing one plans for is it?!!

That's a very lackadaisical attitude....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've got her number, I'll see if she is busy.....

I bet she has your number too.

[Audley Strange]

Do they mean technically as in the theory is sound and it's now a practical problem or "technically" as in "well we have thread..."

[John_fi_Skye]

I'll have Richard Dawkins's please.

[Clinton Huxley]

Do they mean technically as in the theory is sound and it's now a practical problem or "technically" as in "well we have thread..."

As in its a practical proposition. The plumbing is reasonably straightforward, it's the electrics that are the tricky part.

[Audley Strange]

Do they mean technically as in the theory is sound and it's now a practical problem or "technically" as in "well we have thread..."

As in its a practical proposition. The plumbing is reasonably straightforward, it's the electrics that are the tricky part.

Oh great, well in that case any healthy 21 year old every couple of years or would do me, youth being wasted on the young etc. Hmm I wonder if I could build a "spares" orphanage...

Good way to keep going until I can get immortality juice from Tesco.


edited. (12 to 21) Fuck being in a state of perpetual puberty.

[PsychoSerenity]

Ok, so who decides whose head is going to replace yours or whose body your head may be fixed onto? It's not really the sort of thing one plans for is it?!!

I guess it would be the same as organ donation, which is something I've been meaning to sign up for for a while actually.

[Clinton Huxley]

Do they mean technically as in the theory is sound and it's now a practical problem or "technically" as in "well we have thread..."

As in its a practical proposition. The plumbing is reasonably straightforward, it's the electrics that are the tricky part.

Oh great, well in that case any healthy 21 year old every couple of years or would do me, youth being wasted on the young etc. Hmm I wonder if I could build a "spares" orphanage...

Good way to keep going until I can get immortality juice from Tesco.


edited. (12 to 21) Fuck being in a state of perpetual puberty.

You could clone yourself and keep younger spares in the fridge. Eventually, it will be more more unusual than changing ones underpants.

[Trinity]

I saw a programme showing a successful face transplant and that was weird enough, especially for the guy's wife who had to get used to looking at someone else's face but with the voice and body of her husband. I am working on the assumption that in all reality, you would only want your head to go on someone else's body because if it's the other way around, then you won't know it's you anyway!! (Unless brain transplanted too). Too weird for me. What if the body and head worked against each other? What I mean is, someone else's body has some sort of "memory" and doesn't agree with what the new brain is messaging it? Oh god, I'll shut up now....

[JimC]

I'll get a new head later this year, then a new body next year.

It'll make a new man of me!

[Tyrannical]

If they can't repair spinal cord damage from severing of the nerves, then they can't do head transplants.