Don't they mean body transplant?
how nice, ultra billionaires can buy the body of some poor guy by promising to pay their families couple million bucks
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
Face transplantation I can understand, so maybe the reference to head transplantation is wishful thinking. Or macabre future-proofing.
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
I think you answered your own question - there's enough rich people prepared to throw money at longevity projects.
Optimistically, it could be used to help match quadriplegics with brain dead donors. And be used to refine microsurgical processes that would help many with various levels of nerve damage. Presuming the donor body is able to be controlled by the head. I think this has been done with monkeys and the result was quadriplegic monkeys.
Pessimistically, it’s as you say, billionaire immortality.
Kind of starts to create a Ship of Theseus paradox with a human subjects and would be interesting to see what kind of psychology comes about when brains change bodies.
Realistically if we can completely sever a spinal cord and reattach it to a donor body we can heal most quadriplegics without replacing the body
This is some sci-fi horror stuff right here.
David Cronenberg is basing his next film on this. Or he should do anyway.
It's going to be the sequel to Face/Off - Head/Swap.
Is this anti-guillotine technology??
It's the classic Reverse Guillotine.
Yeah absolutely fucking no way I am letting a start up do surgery on any part of me.
Also I think it's hilarious that the article put the video in the form of a tweet... Which pulls with it the user context explaining that head transplants are not currently possible hahahah.
If I was going to die anyway, I wouldn't mind trying, even though I'm 99% sure it wouldn't work. I guess that's the target patient.
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I had an arsehole transplant once. The arsehole rejected me.
That's a bum deal.
Ah, the ol’ head transplant scam is on deck again. Has the AI scam run out of steam already?
BrainBridge
Back in my day, con men ripped off investors with plausible stories.
Yeah I’m calling bullshit on this.
Wouldn't you need a willing participant as a donor..?
Willing?
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