Boy I hate to be a downer, but if reattaching a spinal cord could work, wouldn’t a lot of paralyzed people be walking?
Then there’s the issue of bodies rejecting something as small as a hand sometimes.
What’s the brain going to do with an entire new body.
I know they switched a monkey’s head but it was terrified and paralyzed.
What the heck, though. The guy’s really got nothing to lose.
When they put him under, they should switch the male donor with a female donor :)
“When they put him under, they should switch the male donor with a female donor :)”
possibly becoming the first really transgendered person, or the first transgendered “couple.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
Dr. Jerry Silver, an expert in regrowing severed nerves, stated “I think [head transplants are] fairly barbaric at this point. I do not even see that 100 years from now it is a possibility.