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Re:Terminally Ill Man Willing to Have World's First Full Hea... by gd1 on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @06:52AM (#9380037)
This annoys me too. It's not a "head transplant". You can't get a new head. You are your head. You're getting a new body is what's happening.
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Re:Terminally Ill Man Willing to Have World's First Full Hea... by manicdee on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:02AM (#9412379)
How sure are you of that?

What if it turns out that the brain is only a user interface and hardware abstraction layer to the body, with "you" actually being a colony of microbes living in the body (mainly the gut)?

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Re:Terminally Ill Man Willing to Have World's First Full Hea... by big_maybe on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:36PM (#9389466)
Well technically you can get a new head. Once we figure out how to laplink your brain data over.
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