Posted on 02/26/2015 4:22:43 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Surgeon Sergio Canavero will be embarking on a project to implement the world's first human head transplant.
It's a fascinating concept. You have an otherwise perfectly healthy head on a body that no longer functions. You have, also, an otherwise perfectly healthy donor body. What if you could take the head from its non-functioning body and transplant it onto the healthy body?
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Oh, absolutely. Considering the energy requirements for a horse body, a human torso simply could not process enough food.
Not to mention somehow connecting 4 legs into a nervous system that developed to support 2 legs. . .
Well it’s not like the old legend authors worried too much about the wiring and plumbing.
And why weren’t there any centaurettes.
Not me, I want a gorilla body.
“Considering medical science has yet to fix serious spinal cord injuries, I don’t see how this is a good idea to attach a head to a useless body...that can’t move...”
Their goal is to have a useful body.
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