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Would you like to transplant your brain to a nem body and live forever?
Why? Why not?
Check this out!
http://216.247.9.207/bthtml/about.htm

Discuss.
>> Anonymous
Once you can start shelling out money to get an enhanced, artificial body, sign me the fuck up.
>> Anonymous
just one prob the brain is not bilt to run forever you will need a robbot brain if you wont to live forever. that or just go craze or end up with a IQ of 14.
>> Anonymous
where the hell do they get donated bodies????
>> Anonymous
Nobody watches Ghost in the Shell do they? Cyber brains and prostetic bodies.
>> Anonymous
>>274783
Personality and psyche might be able to last forever given infinite capacity and non-degrading anchors (the physical brain). Brain transplant is inconvenient; wait until one of the technological singularities can occur - digitization of the human mind.

Oh god, how I hope we never get that far ...
>> Anonymous
Well, thats a good idea and all.. but the brain does not produce new cells. This would just give us senile 20 year olds.

Gonna need to figure out how to regen the brain... or map it onto a cpu.
>> Anonymous
This is creepy as hell. Is this shit real? not only would this be incredibly difficult and dangerous, but if it's actually possible then you're gonna have creepy old people in 5-year-old bodies and stuff. Plus, as previously asked, WHERE THE HELL DO THEY GET THE BODIES??? Oh, and if the procedure is in another country and it involves removing your friggin brain, nothing is stopping them from removing your brain, keeping your body and it's potentially valuable organs and running off with your half a million dollars without anyone knowing.
>> Anonymous
Wow, what a conundrum. If you believe this site is real, then you need the procedure is advertising. *shakes head*

>>274817
Hell yeah. I'm not saying it isn't a possibility, I'm just saying that it isn't yet, and that that site is fake. I can't wait for cybernetic enhancements.
>> Anonymous
FAKE
>> Anonymous
k

a) shit isn't going to be like ghost in the shell. everyone's brain is different, so there'll never be a standardized "cybernetic-enhancement" that'll work on all people.

b) "cybernetic-enhancements," if installed on someone, will not be as fast as the physical flesh-brain and will probably take years of therapy to even learn to use. things that happen to your brain affect your thoughts. if you get some kind of supplemental bullshit, how the hell will you know how to engage it? it doesn't say in the manual that you have to think of a puppy, oprah winfrey fucking lieutenant dan, and then count backwards from 100 in imaginary numbers. but you'd probably have to do some ridiculous thought exercise like that to engage and interface with it.

c) soul = body. if we eventually digitalize our minds, it won't be US because by the very definition of self, it is completely unique. the "artificial" mind could behave exactly like us and yet we won't feel immortal (in that when we die, we'll actually live again through our newly-created artificial mind). why? because it is a copy.

everything dies, people just need to get the fuck over it.
>> Anonymous
ps my shit is more aesthetically pleasing than that damn site
>> Merik
Wow... I never expected to see THAT...but this IS the interweb, so I'm not that suprised. But yeah, it's fake. It has to be. No government would back-up such an ill-moral procedure, let alone pass a bill to allow such a thing. And if they did, international governments would step in to fight it. it goes against the "rights" that the government says we have. And we all know they love to "take" them away on us at a whim; the second they feel something may be too free. Besides...

The human brain can only maintain itself for so many years before it dies, just like any other organ. The heart stops betwen 70 and 90 years on average (with exceptions, of course), and Kidneys go all the time. Brains are very sensitive organs, and I somehow doubt they would survive a body transplant. It only takes about 60 seconds without oxygen to cause irreversible brain damage, and it will take at least 5 minutes to cut the brain from the body, plant it in the new one and get the blood pumping through it... you ALSO have to worry about the body rejecting the implant. Just like a kidney, the body in question may not be compatible with the brain. If it's introduced and recognized wrongly, the body will attempt to kill it, and the brain will only help it to do so because it's a natural function to destroy that which is a potential threat.

The whole thing has too many flaws to be real. When we attain the technology to create prosthetic bio-netic bodies and/or brain replacements, then it will be possible. I hope we don't get that far though, to be honest.
>> Anonymous
Why wouldn't you be able to do this. I know I did read a story about how they did transplated a brain(for a monkey I think). Another thing, why would any government step in? What does it matter? People put their names on list to give up their bodies for science all the time. Who knows, this might not be that far away
>> Anonymous
>>274848
You're making up what you don't know.

You can't transplant a brain without severing the billions of nerves going throughout your body, mostly through your spine, and it's a TOTAL bitch to reallign the right nerves in the new body. It's horrifically impractical.
Second, it's 5 to 6 SECONDS without oxygen to the brain that can cause permanent brain damage. After 30 seconds, you may as well put it in a blender.
>> Anonymous
>>274844
Hey. Guess what. Scientists have already successfully created an interface that, once installed in the mouse's nervous system, allows lab the lab mouse to control a mechanical arm. I'm fairly certain mice are not capable of thinking about Lieutenant Dan or Oprah.
>> Anonymous
While they have managed to do a complete head transplant on a monkey, it still died either hours or days later. It seems easier to sever the spinal column and major arteries/veins in the neck than to remove and transplant only the brain.
>> Anonymous
i bet you're one of the guys who read the story about a mouse flying a jet and thought OMFG WE'RE SO CLOSE. what they didn't mention in the story is that the only thing the mouse was doing was keeping the jet balanced by involuntarily using a few neurons to calculate how much to tilt the jet when it wasn't balanced.

and about the robotic arm. that's...trivial compared to CYBERNETIC BRAIN IMPLANTS. we already have a guy who can run a prosthetic arm with his thoughts so why quote a mouse example? you obviously don't know your shit.

and running a robotic device by attaching to PRE-EXISTING NERVOUS SYSTEM CONSTRUCTS LIKE NERVES THAT RUN TO BODY PARTS is...relatively simple. the electrical impulses are already there to be routed TO a device (normally a flesh and blood appendage). but to insert something into the brain to alter the way you think and/or perform supplemental calculations is light years away from this. you missed the entire concept behind my post, kill yourself you dumb faggot.
>> Anonymous
Scratch. The Migrate to Electronics movement.
>> Anonymous
depends. could I get my brain put in an Adrienne Barbeaubot?
>> Anonymous
You guys are morons.
>> Anonymous
Because of the ethical aspects we do not discuss how and were we getting new human bodies for brain transplantation.
>> Anonymous
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lol, did somebody say prosthetics?
>> Anonymous
>>274891

Win.

As for the rest of you fucktards - the website is fake, for no other reason than that every other word is misspelled, and it looks totally unprofessional.
>> Anonymous
>>274844

Thank you Tyler, now can you put some vinegar on this burn? Thnx!
>> Anonymous
you guys are all morons

it's true because what i say applies to everyone above me so obviously I'M not a moron! haha! WIN! WIN HARD!
>> Anonymous
"Expires 01/01/2001."

Obviously the site isn't even updated anymore.
>> Anonymous
>>274715
"Because of the ethical aspects we do not discuss how and were we getting new human bodies for brain transplantation."

lulz
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>> Anonymous
>>274819
god me this god me that, digitilzation of the human brain would be an excellent thing, 1) far more advanced ship AIs (space, aireal, an combat related) an if u found a mind that was great at a task, instead of loosin it forever, wouldn;t make more sense just to make a copy?
>>274792
where? morges have plenty of spare bodies that r still usable, take the body of someone who died of a mental disease, remove the dead brain, an put yours in, that or emos would prob donate they'res, but they're prob hyped on soo many drugs they'll die in 24 hours <,<
>> Anonymous
an on da whole standards thing, everyones brain is a computer, all u gotto do is copy the memory, emotions, etc. an un done <,<