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From: guest (Saint)
, 111 months, post #1 |
http://www.popsci.com/no-human-head-transplants-will-not-be-possible-2017
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From: cj
, 111 months, post #2 |
Awww man, you beat me to this one. :-)
Thanks for the catch Saint.
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From: guest (Saint)
, 111 months, post #3 |
LOL : )
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From: guest
, 111 months, post #4 |
Maybe but I'd argue that you don't need a spine at all, let the
biologists worry about blood supply to the brain and drugs to stop
the body from rejecting the new head. Let the physicists work on
the spine. Robotic limbs and direct Brain - computer interfacing is
advancing extremely quickly, I say use an AER bridge (brain spike),
but rather then the robot moving motors have it fire signals into
the lower spine.
The issue is that there is more research into controlling robots
with an organic brain then there is controlling the organic body
with a robot brain. But research does exist, one day a device will
exist that would allow you to remote control a humans body and
disconnect their brain. Then the two devices will be combined so
the brain controls the computer controlling the body, that way if
wireless communication keeps developing your brain could sit in a
jar and have its body wonder about outside, well anywhere there is
wireless Internet access.
The future will be a weird and wacky place the way sciences are
currently developing. To thing a month ago a human baby born to
three parents seemed impossible, and now it's happening.
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From: guest
, 111 months, post #5 |
Maybe. The two-year hype is way unrealistic though.
Predictions about medical technology: from about 1970 to about
1995, the constant promise for type 1 diabetics was that in less
than five years, a closed-loop implanted artificial pancreas
(actually more like a fully-automatic implanted insulin pump) would
be widely available. It never happened. Non-implantable insulin
pumps that don't monitor glucose at all: those are common now.
They're rather a nuisance and not vastly better than careful use of
injected insulin and insulin analogs with slightly different
actions.
I'd say not to expect anything fancy and not quickly.
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From: cj
, 111 months, post #6 |
"I'd say not to expect anything fancy and not quickly."
I DEMAND full-body (brain) transplants into custom-designed bodies
before I die!!!
:-)
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From: guest
, 111 months, post #7 |
I like the oxymora, I demand something that may lead to
immortality, before I die...
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From: cj
, 111 months, post #8 |
LOL - glad someone caught that. Though I was more waiting for the
"You can have it done now... and death will soon follow." line of
thought.
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