Way off topic human head transplant

Fine. When they've successfully developed the *brain* transplant, email full details concerning Bill Sloman. I'm sure they'll make his rather sad and desperate case a priority for surgery.

Apparently hand transplants work. It's boggling to think of connecting up all those veins and arteries and nerves and things.

If they can connect the entire spinal cord then they should be able to fix every quadriplegic.

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Their intended body recipient is on the road to being quadriplegic, followed by being dead. I think they're aiming for quadriplegic but not dead.

From what I've read, they're doing it in China, and there's hints that the donated body isn't going to come from a source that would be considered ethical in the west -- as in, there are hints that they'll be combining the procedure with the execution of a condemned criminal.

See Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe, early interstellar period.

Is it really a head transplant or a body transplant? Who does the patient become? Frankenstein?

Cursistor Doom clearly does need a brain, but the rest of his nervous system would be overloaded by anything from a normal human being - a baboon might be the donor of choice.

Complete with repeat traffic offenders becoming potential donors.

Probably not. Mary Shelley's book was about Frankenstein's monster, and Frankenstein was the name of the guy doing the operation, rather than the patient (who was never actually named in the book as anything beyond "Frankenstein's monster").

The patient would clearly think of itself as the brain donor - since it's the brain that does the thinking. Krw might be an exception ...

Maybe criminals killed in the process of a crime should forfeit their body parts by default. There are lots of really fine specimens sitting on slabs in places like the Wayne County morgue.

Imagine grafting Stephen Hawking's head onto one of those incredibly fit 20-year-old bodies.

--sp

The head swap is the perfect opportunity for nano-robots to be deployed in the cerebral ventricular fluid. From that beachhead, the flotilla could rule the brainwaves by remote control.

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That's funny - Michael Terrell does seem to be in more need of a better bod y than I am.

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Of course the body he has got might work better with a better brain in it.

The catch with these cute names is that Frankenstein was the name of the su rgeon who did the operation - the patient was merely Frenkenstein's monster , which makes more sense in Dutch where a "monster" is what English calls a "sample", or perhaps a single example.