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Previous HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956301 And the technical details: http://www.surgical
by gliese1337 13y ago
Previous HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956301
And the technical details: http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/article.asp?issn=2152-7806;year=2013;volume=4;issue=2;spage=335;epage=342;aulast=Canavero http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/article.asp?issn=2152-78...
- VladRussian2 13y agothis seems to be thought experiment on throwing together of the old experiment on monkey head transplanting technicalities and the recent discoveries about PEG and some other compounds stopping the typical inflamation process that makes spine cord cuts into unrestorable connection breaks. That begs a question - why wouldn't before head transplant we'd try to transplant a piece of spine (one or few vertebrae) with a cord to the people with traumatic damages of the spine (like bullet or some sport injuries)?
- Udo 13y agoYou just have identified the primary reason why this entire head transplant thing is badly thought-out fiction right there: we haven't mastered reconnecting nerves yet. At least not reliably and not on that scale.