Uh Oh! Head Transpant Going Forward

[SpoiledMilk]

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This guy is tryna to move ahead.

The first human head transplant has been performed on a corpse

 

[hubbsbubbs]

well that's exciting

 

[altblue]

Dat clickbait... Isn't this some rogue doc who never gets the work verified?

 

[pewpew95]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

 

[SpoiledMilk]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

That is pretty bad**s.

 

[Goro]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

Didn't her programmers know about Azimov's Law of Robotics? ???

 

[drmantistobbogan]

This guy is tryna to move ahead.

ba-dum tsss

 

[radiculating spines]

Today head transplants, tomorrow we can only imagine.

 

[mydogmolly]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

mother of god. uncanny valley anyone?

 

[mcdocky]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

I like her response to: What is your job?
Sounds like she's already bluffing like a pre-med at an interview

 

[SterlingMaloryArcher]

Today head transplants, tomorrow we can only imagine.

Its a real image.

 

[Kurk]

What do you mean "uh oh"? I've been following this guy since he first announced his plan to do this early this year iirc.

The guy who wanted to perform the first heart-transplant was also a loony, right?

 

[Skiiiiiing]

The world is changing around us. I'm more concerned about that robot Sophia and her responses to "do you like humans" (see: )

y i k e s

Obvious robot joke is obvious.

The biggest question is what to do with all the zero marginal product employees who are going to be replaced by robots in the next 50 years.

 

[getdown]

There can't be any advancement without pushing boundaries.

 

[SpoiledMilk]

I don't know. I'm all for pushing medical boundaries but doesn't this quote from the article indicate that his rush to perform the procedure before further studies violate the first tenet of the Hippocratic Oath of "First, Do No Harm?"

Jerry Silver, a professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, recently told Newsweek that technically the head could be attached to a respirator where it could remain alive for days in incredible pain. “Every muscle, the bones, everything has been severed,” he said. “Can you imagine the pain from all those cut things? That’s the worst. The head is going to wake up in pain.”

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

So I'm of the very small minority who think head transplant isn't insane.

The theory behind the procedure isn't totally insane. The goal is to take the head of someone who is quadriplegic and transplant it onto a donor body...but the patient isn't expected to regain motor function.

We already perform multivisceral transplants where people will get the entirety of their abdominal contents transplanted. This is basically the same except with the extremities and thoracic cavity transplanted as well.

I don't see this as being particularly useful, but it is certainly possible and not absolutely unethical.

 

[21Rush12]

Today head transplants, tomorrow we can only imagine.

We’re going to transplant the Declaration of Independence