Head Transplants Are Weird (but not impossible) 

Nice to see RU-vid giving you an official bluecheck more-or-less

I imagine there would also be an issue of donor availability. You'd need a body that's otherwise okay, but it's got no use for its current head. Even then, you can run into the ethical questions of if we use this one body to save / improve the quality of life of one person, or if you use it to save / improve the QOL of multiple people.

I have had three kidney transplants in my life and the biggest issue is the problems and side effects from the anti rejection medication. I think we can find an alternative to head transplant. But it is interesting to see what the future will hold. Love your show Doc

It’s crazy how fast it’s all happening! I mean, we kinda knew to expect it when people started freezing their heads/body. But this seems fast!

"several years of....dogged perseverance" I see what you did there... those poor puppies :(

I’m ridiculously fascinated with this idea, and I’ve recently wrote an essay on Dr. White and general results of the practice so far. I’m currently studying for my Pre-med masters, and I can’t wait to hopefully start my own study into head transplanting!

uh oh, the sex bots are already in the comments

I feel likes it’s a body transplant… also, it’s insane and wrong with our level of technology. Better to put all that energy, money and intelligence into figuring out how to heal severed spinal cords and treating muscular dystrophies. Imagine getting a new body that is so different from your original that you cannot accept it. What if the skin color is different, or a different sex? This is terrifying as a concept.

I want my brain in a robot. I want to travel space and stick around. To see where humans go or end. Then travel space.

Just because you can does not mean you should

I loved the addition of Blender's Suzanne at 3:43 :)

Now I'm kinda scared

Doctor, i LOVE THE THUMBNAIL 😂

In my humble opinion.. just no. It's just creepy.

This man knows

I don’t think it’s an impossibility in the future. But I think by that time regenerative research and technologies would be far enough along to make this procedure unnecessary. All complex and simple organisms are capable of regrowth to some degree. Whereas forms of transplantion* only exist in a few complex organisms. And these (more parasitic) transplants aren’t even close to as complicated as the transplants we’ve already accomplished. Really enjoyed the hypothetical though!

I can't stop laughing at the thought of stitching two animals together perfectly aligned so it looks as if theyre clipping IRL 😂

I've only played guitar with one surgeon. Spanish fella. We murdered the slow movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez together at a party and left it lying with all four paws up in the air. As far as I know he never mucked about with people's wobbly bits in a badly lit cellar to see if splicing people together in new ways would make him groovy enough to be in this sort of video but you never know. I've still got some trust left though. Thanks Raj.

Gene therapies are where the solution to rejection is going for organs, bit off in practical use but the research is impressive

A medical doctor living in an entirely different country just called me a silly sausage, I'm not sure how to feel about this.

Forget head transplants, I want cyberpunk-style body mods.

Altered Carbon is becoming reality. It’s terrifying. I wish I was born 100 years earlier so I don’t have to deal with these scary thoughts.

Now I will have nightmares of chimeras.

Dude, Doctor Who was right, we are going to meet cybers one day, thats creepy af

It's like watching horror documentary 😮

Thanks Doc, as an animal lover, I found this to be very upsetting! Wish you gave us a warning 😢

Wouldn't severed & reconnected spinal cord issues have to be solved first?

I love being a silly sausage lol :) Great video as always! Much to think about... 🧠

Futurama, IRL. Cool.

9:57 From the moment I realised the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me.

3:00 WTH. Dog-goat-dog? 😂

Haha before gta6 never heard that one before 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😕

I wonder how this would work.Like would it increse the lifespan of the one that has the head 🤔

We don't need to do this in order to live forever but i do agree that it could benefit so many others with serious medical issues.

I just want a new body. The backstory to this is my supervisor saying, "Does anyone need anything before I leave?" My friend called back, "I need a new brain." I followed up with, "I need a new body."

Where go you get the spare bodies from?

what if instead of another body, the head would be transplanted to a bionic body?

Creepy af

9:25 isn't really a problem once you understand how it works and it's basically impossible

Have you seen the movie “the island” with Scarlett Johansson? How they raised clones for this purpose

Why would I watch this video while eating despite of the title 😅

I’d say this is more of a whole body transplant. It’s not like if my head was damaged, a new one could be transplanted on for me. The brain and memories and personality wouldn’t be me. The person with the head would get a whole new body.

It feels like GITS is right around the corner. Not even a distant corner 🤖 👍

My prediction for the future in this field is the developement of high fidelity chip interfaces which could either work as a bypass in case of spine damage where they would simply carry signals artificially over damaged areas, or in case of degenerative illnesses, where they would work as input/output hubs for data for prostetic limbs, possibly with some sensory feedback lik pressure sensors in them too. Robotic arms already exist. Now if we developed a whole external systems, something like full body braces with servos for muscles, the only difficult thing would be how to connect those to the brain, or the spine. As for the chip itself, i homestly don't see a reason why they should be hackable in the first place. In my opinion, a brain implant of any kind has no reason to be online. Sure, maybe to have some close proximity device for doing actual calculations and monitoring outside of the body with the chip alone sitting inside, but there's no reason for it to be connected to the wifi. I can imagine them looking something akin to insulin pumps - the contact device in body, with the main unit attached on the outaide for service access, system updates (provided by the healthcare professional during in person checkup), and so on

It is the brain makes you you. Do we need a body ?

I have taken augumentin 625 thrice a day and Azithromycin 500 once a day for 5 days unnecessarily is it possible that my all intestinal bacteria dead?( Extrinct permanently) Please sir reply🙏🙏🙏🙏

This could mean we could live 300+ years?

❤this . Sidenote , al transplantations no mater what it is , the person has to take medicin for it the rest of their life

I believe that in the future, they might create clones of individuals and then either transplant the original person's head onto the clone or transfer their consciousness into the clone.

Dr karan after Bing watching black mirror, also watch love death and robots

Pretty sure for head transplants to work we need to figure out how to fix spinal cord injuries

There's a great video from Jacob Geller about this and other related stuff, after this check that out also

9:20 Another drawback will be the device developing a fault...Which happened to the guy. I honesty don't think implants for that problem will be a mainstream means of using such technology for the reason I mention. There are devices that don't need to be implanted though at the moment, they aren't as reliable so far.

yeah - tech seems like the better options....rather than transplanting a head, is it possible to develop tech like we saw in Bodies (the netflix show) where Iris Maplewood had basically an external technological spinal cord? she was a paraplegic without it in place, but could walk when it was on. she took it off periodically to charge it. it's sci fi, but it seems plausible. obviously there would be scenarios where that wouldn't work, but it would cover a lot of things. i dunno..head transplants seem....creepy. maybe i've just watched too much Umbrella Academy. or too much TV in general.....

Dio!!!

but the body rejects the head...

But who would give the body?💀

A memory is not just a combination of words typed, The biological brain you were born with can't be uploaded and be an authentic human being.

im a silly sausage

Kenjaku tutorial

Are some scientists within immunology toying with the idea of somehow teaching the immune system to accept foreign bodies (the ultimate goal being the whole complex transplant system)?

Hello

Of course he was french...

I feel likes it’s a body transplant… also, it’s insane and wrong with our level of technology. Better to put all that energy, money and intelligence into figuring out how to heal severed spinal cords and treating muscular dystrophies.

Sounds like a book called Noggin

3:59 Is he smoking a pipe - WHILE OPERATING???

Ha Ha! 😂

I've always found these insane experiments incredibly interesting. As dark as they are, they're an unfortunate evil to advance our medical practices and technology to new heights. I can imagine if you did this on a human, it would be incredibly painful, and the patient would have to be on anti rejection meds for the rest of their life

So, no head in the 🫙? Futurama

❤

When your rich 🤑 anything is possible 😉

Is this ai voice?

This is literally playing God.