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> Your head in a jar until they either create a new body for you or find a donor body Could you imagine the horror of waking up and being just a head?

no1youknowz 7y ago
Yes, it truly sounds horrific! Straight out of a nightmare movie! However I would like to think that ethical concerns would not allow this and also this research doesn't actually have this course of action in mind. When I mean head in a jar. I meant disconnected from any machinery and placed in fluids so that no more decomposition of the brain takes place. In effect, the person is still dead. No brain activity, nothing. However, when a "new body" is ready. This process is then performed and the person is given a chance at life again.
pepr 7y ago
For me, it sure beats dying!
- solotronics 7y ago
  In its current form it would probably be horrific torture at best.
- JudgeWapner 7y ago
  does it? being conscious, blind, paralyzed and deaf is a preferred outcome to you?
- d1zzy 7y ago
  In many places euthanasia is legal and plenty of people chose to die than continue living, that shows that there are people and situations where dying is better than living under any conditions. It's unfortunate that's the choice they are making but it may be the better choice for them. How do we know being a disconnected brain in a container is an improvement over their situation?
the99thguy 7y ago
I wonder if your brain could deal with that... If you don't emulate any sensations or bodily "communications" would your brain just snap?
- Rychard 7y ago
  Hopefully the shock of having literally no sensory input would prevent your brain from entering such a hell. Keyboard not found Press any key to continue... >
  - AstralStorm 7y ago
    People hallucinate without sensory input and some of those hallucinations can be terrifying. Read up on sensory deprivation tanks.
api 7y ago
I can imagine some really cyberpunk scenarios: "kill me... the... corporation... won't let me die... kill me...!"
- xamuel 7y ago
  If you want a semi-historical platform to launch this hypothetical scenario from, Rudolf Hess would be a good example. He was imprisoned, along with other nazis, in a prison in West Berlin shortly after WWII. It was agreed that the different allied powers would take turns guarding this prison as long as prisoners remained. Fast-forward to the Cold War era, and that agreement had an unintended consequence: it gave the USSR a precious foothold in West Berlin. Thus, they vetoed every request for Rudolf Hess's release, until he died in 1987. He had been the lone inmate of the 600-cell prison for more than 20 years. Now for an alternative history twist: the Cold War never ends, and Rudolf Hess is kept alive as a brain in a vat for thousands of years, with the Russians and the Americans continuing to take turns guarding him so that both sides can cling to that sliver of West Berlin.
- dragonsngoblins 7y ago
  Hell that pretty much straight up happens in Neuromancer, which is considered to be the codifier/originator of a huge portion of the tropes that make up cyberpunk as a genre.
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hanniabu 7y ago
Reminds me of a scene from Mars Attacks
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no1youknowz 7y ago

Yes, it truly sounds horrific! Straight out of a nightmare movie! However I would like to think that ethical concerns would not allow this and also this research doesn't actually have this course of action in mind. When I mean head in a jar. I meant disconnected from any machinery and placed in fluids so that no more decomposition of the brain takes place. In effect, the person is still dead. No brain activity, nothing. However, when a "new body" is ready. This process is then performed and the person is given a chance at life again.

pepr 7y ago

For me, it sure beats dying!

solotronics 7y ago
In its current form it would probably be horrific torture at best.
JudgeWapner 7y ago
does it? being conscious, blind, paralyzed and deaf is a preferred outcome to you?
d1zzy 7y ago
In many places euthanasia is legal and plenty of people chose to die than continue living, that shows that there are people and situations where dying is better than living under any conditions. It's unfortunate that's the choice they are making but it may be the better choice for them. How do we know being a disconnected brain in a container is an improvement over their situation?

the99thguy 7y ago

I wonder if your brain could deal with that... If you don't emulate any sensations or bodily "communications" would your brain just snap?

Rychard 7y ago
Hopefully the shock of having literally no sensory input would prevent your brain from entering such a hell. Keyboard not found Press any key to continue... >
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  People hallucinate without sensory input and some of those hallucinations can be terrifying. Read up on sensory deprivation tanks.

api 7y ago

I can imagine some really cyberpunk scenarios: "kill me... the... corporation... won't let me die... kill me...!"

xamuel 7y ago
If you want a semi-historical platform to launch this hypothetical scenario from, Rudolf Hess would be a good example. He was imprisoned, along with other nazis, in a prison in West Berlin shortly after WWII. It was agreed that the different allied powers would take turns guarding this prison as long as prisoners remained. Fast-forward to the Cold War era, and that agreement had an unintended consequence: it gave the USSR a precious foothold in West Berlin. Thus, they vetoed every request for Rudolf Hess's release, until he died in 1987. He had been the lone inmate of the 600-cell prison for more than 20 years. Now for an alternative history twist: the Cold War never ends, and Rudolf Hess is kept alive as a brain in a vat for thousands of years, with the Russians and the Americans continuing to take turns guarding him so that both sides can cling to that sliver of West Berlin.
dragonsngoblins 7y ago
Hell that pretty much straight up happens in Neuromancer, which is considered to be the codifier/originator of a huge portion of the tropes that make up cyberpunk as a genre.

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hanniabu 7y ago

Reminds me of a scene from Mars Attacks

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