Brain Transplant (poll)

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I thought of this question last night, when i thought of how different my life could be if my brain were wired "correctly."

A brain transplant would make you a completely new person, having completely new memories. What personality traits are you assuming that you would preserve through this process? Just your old memories? You couldn't preserve your interests, because they would be undoubtedly ASD-oriented. Depending on what clarification you can provide to the question, I'm leaning toward "No".

When the government asked me if there was anything else they could give/help me with, I put:

I'm betting I had someone laughing at the disability office.

If there is such a thing as a "soul"....I would consider selling mine for a brain transplant.


I'd rather be just about anyone aside from who I am... so long as I could be someone of at least average intelligence.


I think I might even rather be Adolph Hitler or Ted Bundy. As nefarious as they were, at least they got some happiness out of life and probably felt pretty darn good about themselves.


I know, know....that's a stupid/horrible thing to say....blah, blah, blah....


Consider the source.

I voted no, mainly because of the 50% survival rate.

I voted no.

I voted yes in spite of the 50% survival rate. I'd have nothing to lose aside from an utterly worthless/joyless existence and a dessicated husk of a brain.

*shrugs*


What can I say?....some of us just aren't happy with who we are. I'm sure just about anyone who has walked in my shoes would find it impossi ble to be happy with themselves.

50% chance of survival, 98% chance of lower intelligence than current, 0% chance of retaining memories.

What was the benefit again?

Eh, no.
Wouldn't have considered that even when I was in the cure frame of mind.

The thought of having another's brain... does not appeal to me. Nor does any type of surgery, especially surgery that would have to deal with the head.
I do not always like being me, but overall, I am fine with how/who I am.
And besides... it's a little to late to become someone else, isn't it? People know me as me.
I know me as me.

....
How much would becoming someone else mess up -everything-?
I would wake up as someone else.
I wouldn't understand how this is my body anymore. (and since I'd be "normal" I am assuming I'd be a lot more attached/connected to my body.).
I wouldn't know my own family. I wouldn't know our house. I wouldn't know my friends. I wouldn't know my pets. I wouldn't know my name.

"I" would essentially be dead. I wouldn't be happy to be someone new, for I wouldn't be "me", I would be "they", and "me" and "they" would never have even known about one another.





This.... none of this makes any sense to me.
This thread has me confused, even more so than the regular cure-threads.

LoL, but tim tex, this doesn't apply to you. you're an NT! i saw your AS quiz results.



...just teasing.

In my case....I have no memories worth retaining.


And if my intelligence is in the 98% percentile.....it's -98%.

I don't care what my IQ tests (i've taken five IQ tests/neuropsych evals) say about my FSIQ being anywhere from average to very superior.

Forty years of self-observation tells me i'm dumber than dirt. So one man's counterproductive brain transplant is another's ticket out of hell.

i myself voted no to my own poll question. for one, because of the 50/50 chance (never been too lucky with those!), two, because by now i am pretty adjusted as an aspie. i'm used to being the way i am.

Since consciousness seems to be an effect of the brain and not the body if my brain were replaced I think my consciousness would be too.

"My" body would look the same, but "I" would be dead, so a brain transplant wouldn't be of any benefit to "me". "I" would be just a body donor and not a participant in the joined body + brain.

I'm an NT too going by the same test. (Even though I'm disabled by the ASD and I've been evaluated by god knows how many professionals, not to mention the government one who gave out the disability pension, who herself had a daughter with AS who was like me.)

If you adjust it to 100% survival rate, preserve all of my old memories, have my IQ jump 5 points, and give me a million dollars, I would still say no. I'm quite happy with who I am, thank you very much.