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I think that a replacement head from a monkey would greatly improve
Saba's IQ.
Science is a glorious thing when put to humanitarian use.
J2
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> Kelly wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1263000/1263758.stm
>
> A controversial operation to transplant the
> whole head of a monkey onto a different body
> has proved a partial success.
>
> The scientist behind it wants to do the same
> thing to humans, but other members of the
> scientific community have condemned the
> experiments as "grotesque".
>
> Professor Robert White, from Cleveland Ohio,
> transplanted a whole monkey's head onto
> another monkey's body, and the animal
> survived for some time after the operation.
>
> The professor told the BBC's Today programme
> how he believes the operation is the next step
> in the transplant world.
>
> And he raised the possibility that it could be
> used to treat people paralysed and unable to
> use their limbs, and whose bodies, rather than
> their brains, were diseased.
>
> "People are dying today
> who, if they had body
> transplants, in the
> spinal injury community
> would remain alive."
>
> He said that in the
> experiment, his team
> had been able to:
> "transplant the brain as a separate organ into
> an intact animal and maintain it in a viable, or
> living situation for many days."
>
> He added: "We've been able to retain the brain
> in the skull, and in the head."
>
> That, he said meant the monkey was
> conscious, and that it could see, hear, taste
> and smell because the nerves were left intact
> in the head.
>
> He admitted that it could appear "grotesque",
> but said there had been ethical considerations
> throughout the history of organ transplants.
>
> "At each stage - kidney, heart, liver and so
> forth - ethical considerations have been
> considered, especially with the heart, which
> was a major, major problem for many people
> and scientists.
>
> "And the brain, because of its uniqueness
> poses a major, major ethical issue as far as the
> public and even the profession is concerned."
>
> 'Scientifically misleading'
>
> The arguments against head and brain
> transplants were outlined by Dr Stephen Rose,
> director of brain and behavioural research at
> the Open University.
>
> He said: "This is medical technology run
> completely mad and out of all proportion to
> what's needed.
>
> "It's entirely misleading to suggest that a head
> transplant or a brain transplant is actually
> really still connected in anything except in
> terms of blood stream to the body to which it
> has been transplanted.
>
> "It's not controlling or relating to that body in
> any other sort of way."
>
> He added: "It's scientifically misleading,
> technically irrelevant and scientifically
> irrelevant, and apart from anything else a
> grotesque breach of any ethical consideration."
>
> "It's a mystification to call it either a head
> transplant or a brain transplant.
>
> "All you're doing is keeping a severed head
> alive in terms of the circulation from another
> animal. It's not connected in any nervous
> sense."
>
> The issue of who someone who had received a
> head transplant would "be" is extremely
> complicated, said Professor Rose.
>
> "Your person is largely embodied but not
> entirely in your brain".
>
> He added: "I cannot see any medical grounds
> for doing this. I cannot see that scientifically
> you would actually be able to regenerate the
> nerves which could produce that sort of
> control.
>
> "And I think that the experiments are the sort
> that are wholly unethical and inappropriate for
> any possible reason."
>
> He added that the way to help the quadriplegic
> community was to work on research to help
> spinal nerves regenerate.
>
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