RE: What questions will a human head transplant bring to light?
What questions will a human head transplant bring to light?
Same as a blood transfusion. We are the total of our entire body. Your heart doesn't hold information about identity, neither does your brain. We are not something special. We just think we are because we are afraid of dying.
The separation of heart, mind and soul is medieval compared to what we know about medicine today. Soul was invented because people did not know what neurons were and how electrical signals fire in our bodies. In theory you could re-program someone to act entirely differently if you have control over their brain. We know this with 100% accuracy when we observe effects of medicine and drugs in our brain or even an experience that causes trauma. Our neurological being that spreads through an entire body is the sum of its experiences.
This is where religion fails to answer important questions and instead recycles old ideas. It bases its theories on old terminology. It's like saying that there are only four alchemic elements (fire, earth, water, wind) when we have the periodic table of elements in our disposal.
This is your brain. It spreads everywhere
Yes this is a real body donated from the chinese goverment
@kyriacos,
As always I love your comments and you have a very interesting view on this :)
What is the explanation of the body that was donated. This does not look human?
BTW, do you believe us humans a have a chance for a successful head transplant as suggested in the article at the bottom of my post?
I visited the excibition for the first time in New York. It is indeed fascinating although it might be disturbing for some. The bodies are mostly ex-convicts donated from the chinese goverment. What you see above is our entire neuron system as it spread from the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:_The_Exhibition
I think so far it is hard to accomplish such a task because individual nerves are close to impossible to be connected together and transfer the same signals to the rest of the body. neurons are tiny wires. nothing more nothing less.
The endoneurium curries different charges and we have not figured out yet how to "synchronise" it once it is severed or even damaged. So trying to recconect two of them together is what is the problem for this procedure so far. nothing else.
no "soul" issue at all. It is just a technological problem.
Thanks for the great answer. I would love to see the exhibition. and hope that it will still be possible for me. I do not believe that we can see the soul, maybe in another dimension . This can only be answered when we pass on to the next life :)