If you have a brain transplant...

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...how do you retain your identity? I mean, all your memories will be in synapses in your 'old' brain, so to speak. So how do you know who you are, and why you're not dead? I pose this question to thee, the PPR posters to chew on!

Ben

hat about the guy you took the brain from. Does the rest of your body contain the essential you?

We are all our pre-frontal lobes.

ruveyn

Well that's kind of what I'm asking, Sand. How do you stay 'you' when all your memories and your personality etc. are in a brain you no longer have?
Would you care to expand ruveyn or leave a classic one line cryptic answer?

How do you know where your thoughts and memories are if they are not in the brain you evidently just discarded? I would emphatically suggest you retrieve that discarded brain of yours quickly if it has not been carted off or eaten by crows.

Having a brain transplant would turn you into a different person in the same body. However the brain still needs an operating system to work and that is either neurotypical or those in the autism family of operating systems. The brain is still a computer and it is it's own central processing unit or more accurately a delocalised processing unit. the original person would be lost.

Yeah, brain transplant just wouldn't help you. Most of your sense of identity, personality, and everything else is in the brain.

yep. you would cease to exist unless you were swapping! What is interesting though is that the heart contains some neurons which are associated with memory. there has been anecdotal evidence from people who have had heart transplants that they have certain feelings that are "not their own" and of course all these expressions connecting love and life to the heart may have some startling intuition to them! who knows.

Video of first brain transplant

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8On7rktFZME[/youtube]

Well you would be a different person if another brain was transplanted into your body. It would be weird tho if they did a partial brain transplant tho. It's not possible right now either way.

That would be awesome.

Then you could be in the body of someone healthy and good looking.

I wonder how straight men would feel if a gay guy's brain was put inside a hot woman's body....

I would like to be put inside a hot woman's body, I have wondered what would be like

As a straight man, I think I wouldn't mind that if she had a gay guy's brain, in fact, I would rather it would be a transgendered guy, as some of them seem to act more feminine than women even, and that would be nice

Looks like brain transplants are full of ethical issues

i think i'd like that! but perhaps i am not entirely straight.

it makes me wonder what would happen though. the brain would have to re learn all motor coordination etc. i personally think it would be really difficult to do without severe problems even death. perhaps the brain is more plastic than i imagine though

ME TOO!! !

I've been trying since puberty!

Getting a brain transplant will make a new man out of you.

ruveyn