Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage

Re:Project outline for the first human head transplantation ... by joe_the_user on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @02:00AM (#7803132)

The obvious crazy-sci-fi use of this is transplanting an older head/brain into a younger, cloned body.

While this would only happen many years in the future, if at all, to say this raises ethical issues is a serious understatement.

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Re:Project outline for the first human head transplantation ... by sqrt17 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:01AM (#7803409)

The other obvious crazy-sci-fi scenario would be a young person who survives a massive organ failure by getting their head grafted onto a 70-year-old donor's body. That sounds pretty intense as a topic for a novel.

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Re:Project outline for the first human head transplantation ... by atmosx on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @02:54AM (#7803241)

Oh there are tons of similar issues ranging from physics (teleportation/entanglment) to medicine, science is cruel :-)

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