I mean, it's not really a head transplant, though. It's a body transplant. The guy isn't getting a new head. He's keeping his head. He's getting a new body.
They cut off his whole body , that's all he was in the end a dick.
I mean, it's not really a head transplant, though. It's a body transplant. The guy isn't getting a new head. He's keeping his head. He's getting a new body.
Just to be clear, it's not this dude doing the operation, right?
Dr. Canavero has this to say to critics:
More at the link including a video snippet of an interview with the neurosurgeon:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/neurosurge...ow-frontier-breaking-head-transplant-1497034#
Is it me... or does he look an awful lot like this guy from MGS5: TPP?
If it works it'll be just in time for the guy to play Shenmue III.
Canavero has also been quick to dismiss critics who do not believe the operation will work and has suggested anyone opposed to the idea should travel to Valery's hometown in the Russian city of Vladimir, east of Moscow, to see for themselves.
"No problem. Come to Vladimir, Russia. I will tie you up to Valery's wheelchair, you will poo and pee the way he does, you will sleep the way he does, for 24 hours, OK? After 24 hours, I will ask you 'do you still believe that this is going to be a crazy project?' and I can bet you 100 to one that it is possible he will change his mind," he told Reuters in his studio in the northern Italian city of Turin.
Canavero says the key to the procedure is a sharp severance of the spinal cords. The head needs to be removed with a sharp blade, causing minimal damage to the spinal cords. Speed, too, is of essence, he says.
"Actually, as everybody knows by now, the head will be cooled and there won't be a single drop of blood inside so he will be clinically dead, as dead as it gets as I said in my TEDx talk. And actually this momentary absence of circulation is, it's actually momentary because the two gurneys will be like this in the same room, so the head will gravitate for just a few seconds until the surgeon will start reconnecting the head to the new body," he said.
So they have to get a freshly killed body for this to work right
http://www.*****************/health/article-3721986/Patient-set-undergo-world-s-human-head-transplant-says-Dr-Frankenstein-reveal-details-operation-month.html
Looks like its happening.
edit: looks like dailymail is blocked on here? (rightfully so). Regardless, apparently the Russian guy is supposed to go under the knife next year sometime and there will be more info released in September.
No problem. Come to Vladimir, Russia. I will tie you up to Valery's wheelchair, you will poo and pee the way he does, you will sleep the way he does, for 24 hours, OK?.
I can't imagine the horror the brain will experience while being beheaded slowly over the course of several hours. Even if totally unconscious imagine the insane nerve impulses and chemical imbalances his brain is going to have to endure. I would rather choose death.
Why would you even want a different head? Wouldn't your brain be different too?
The most important question is; will there be a livestream?
Why would you even want a different head? Wouldn't your brain be different too?