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Is this anti-guillotine technology??
It's the classic Reverse Guillotine.
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
Face transplantation I can understand, so maybe the reference to head transplantation is wishful thinking. Or macabre future-proofing.
What is the point of this? Seems like the kinda shit a billionaire would fund, chasing immortality via body swapping or some horseshit.
I think you answered your own question - there's enough rich people prepared to throw money at longevity projects.
Optimistically, it could be used to help match quadriplegics with brain dead donors. And be used to refine microsurgical processes that would help many with various levels of nerve damage. Presuming the donor body is able to be controlled by the head. I think this has been done with monkeys and the result was quadriplegic monkeys.
Pessimistically, it’s as you say, billionaire immortality.
Kind of starts to create a Ship of Theseus paradox with a human subjects and would be interesting to see what kind of psychology comes about when brains change bodies.
I had an arsehole transplant once. The arsehole rejected me.
That's a bum deal.
My arsehole left me and now I’m full of shit!
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