hardly - the 'person' created from this experiment would mostly be the person who donated the brain - OK so we've got stuff like muscle memory etc.. that would be lost/gained - but essentially it would be the person with the brain in another shell.
Donate your brain.
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hardly - the 'person' created from this experiment would mostly be the person who donated the brain - OK so we've got stuff like muscle memory etc.. that would be lost/gained - but essentially it would be the person with the brain in another shell.
not unless they can do the transplant in under a minute and then if by some miracle that worked you'd be blind and paralyzed and eventually die of rejection
it's called testing :/
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who goes there?
There was a short article in BBC Focus Magazine about this. Basically the answer is no, atleast, not with current or near future medicine. You could transplant a brain and get blood flowing to it, but the big issue is the spinal cord and nerve system.
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Do you need nerves? If you got blood flowing through the brain, would the person, be the person....i.e. would it be the worst torture known to man?
you'd just be a blind, deaf, mute, quadriplegic with no sense of heat, pressure, pain etc. so would be boring.
I've got no idea how the brain works, and the article pretty much just said 'no you can't do it'. I wouldn't imagine blood flow would result in anything more than a brain dead or vegetitive state. Possibly not even either of those.
Why a Lion, why not a Giraffe, or some kind of hippo?
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Is that a brain transplant or a body transplant?
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I've just received a phone call from a man claiming to be Dr. Vladimir Potonofsky. He said he was very interested in my experiments and is currently herding some test patients. He gave me the location of his secret bunker where the tests can be conducted. The work will all be top secret, so i will be limited to what information i will be able to release over the coming few weeks. However a full report will be submitted to the press and relevant authorities when a success has been achieved. Stay tuned 
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With total sensory deprivation, wouldn't the brain start creating something to experience? I remember a horizon where people had varying types of sensory deprivation for a few days, one started to hallucinate with just darkness, so i suspect if it was total it would turn into a sort of lucid dream, this idea of course brings up questions of reality as it is right now...
Also i wonder how an adult brain would react if properly implanted into the body of the opposite sex, obviously looking different would be strange but the different physiology and seemingly trivial things like voice being different must have some effect on personality and stuff, would males turn girly and females turn manly i wonder?
What about big ages differences, would an old brain in a young body last a lot longer?
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I've just received a phone call from a man claiming to be Dr. Vladimir Potonofsky. He said he was very interested in my experiments and is currently herding some test patients. He gave me the location of his secret bunker where the tests can be conducted. The work will all be top secret, so i will be limited to what information i will be able to release over the coming few weeks. However a full report will be submitted to the press and relevant authorities when a success has been achieved. Stay tuned
So you will definitely be needing the life glug?. Email in sig.
Yeah I agree with you there...and to further it scientists don't know how the brain attains consciousness - it just does ; also there are so many nerve connections to the eyes ears (imagine all the connections that have to go in the right place on the spine) etc that it goes beyond todays technology.
This is a macabre subject .
Now a head transplant - that would work . They have done it with monkeys that have lasted for a few days I think.
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Also i wonder how an adult brain would react if properly implanted into the body of the opposite sex, obviously looking different would be strange but the different physiology and seemingly trivial things like voice being different must have some effect on personality and stuff, would males turn girly and females turn manly i wonder?
What about big ages differences, would an old brain in a young body last a lot longer?
Standard disclaimer of IANDF* but apart from the doubtfulness of being able to do that I'd expect the greater instance of female/male hormones coursing around the surrogate body to have a greater effect than a different voice would.
As for the older brain I suppose it would depend partially if it was already suffering from any sort of damage but I don't think it would last that much longer before suffering the same fate as it always would since the cells would still be decaying.
*I Am Not Dr Frankenstein.
We're pretending here it's possible to fully implant nerve connections and all, i was thinking of hormones but i suspect just the external image perception must have some effect, theres been studies into how people change when viewing themselves through a virtual character, though nothing extreme they seem to think it can have some effect after spending long periods like it.
I doubt an old brain in a young body would last the life of the body but surely it would last a fair while longer?
I doubt an old brain in a young body would last the life of the body but surely it would last a fair while longer?