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Can it be defined as what is being replaced and discarded? When you have a heart transplant, they replace the heart with a new one and discard the old heart. In
by cthulhujr 10y ago
Can it be defined as what is being replaced and discarded? When you have a heart transplant, they replace the heart with a new one and discard the old heart. In this case, they're discarding the body, so I see it as a body transplant. As others have noted, mass is meaningless in this context.
Edit: The sources on wikipedia's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant article all call it a head transplant... so, I assume people more knowledgeable than I on the topic have already "talked it out". Head transplant it is!
- matt_morgan 10y agoI like that; and I like defining it as what part goes with the self. Your definition is probably cleaner but I think most of us feel like the "I" goes with the head no matter what else may change.
- danilocesar 10y agoThey also "discard" the dead head... So, I guess no.
- cthulhujr 10y agoThey also discard the body of the heart donor.
- justinlardinois 10y agoWhat's discarded from the donor doesn't really mean much. We don't consider what parts of organ donors' bodies aren't used.
- StavrosK 10y agoThat's exactly my view as well. You don't have a "body minus liver" transplant, you have a liver transplant (i.e. you get a new liver). Here, you get a new body, not a new head, therefore body transplant.
- leni536 10y ago> Can it be defined as what is being replaced and discarded? From the viewpoint of the patient? Which person is the donor and which is the patient?