In January I would have thought this guy was a madman. In February I became more aquainted with my neighbor who has ALS. I learned he didn't have nearly as much care as he needed and i began helping 2-3 times a day. I took care of some simple medical and biological needs, basic meals and some... Herbology, which is legal in my state. My point is is that since Febuary his deteoration has been drastic. We just got him an EyeGaze device last week to help him speak. 2 weeks ago the family brought in hospice. If you asked him "Hey, man, do you want to volunteer for this crazy new experiment?" I think he would say yes. He knows he's dying, but if all he had was a few hours to play the drums again (he was amazing) I think he would take it.
Thank you for sharing this. It's an excellent example of how all humans should treat their neighbors. (And everyone.) I wish it were the rule, instead of the exception. Thank you for being awesome!
Becky is helping her ALS neighbor with biological needs? I’m sure he thanks you lol Sorry sorry, I have the brain of a 14y/o so I must make joke when I think of joke… But real talk, your neighbor is lucky to have a neighbor who is willing to help. You are very kind
@@JamesCavender-me6ei Volunteer to be a human subject then. Shouldn't bother you at all, since even more progress will be made than would be with animals.
As someone in the medical field , the thought of being able to repair spinal damage would be world changing. This would save so many people from long term complications and deaths. Also, it would be a major step to other neurological conditions!
It. Would prob be held over the general public’s head too. Ever seen repo man? Nobody gonna be able to afford it and then they will own you, financially, or take it back…
They neurolinks they are perfecting now are going to be miraculous to so many people's lives. It could make permanent spinal cord injuries a thing of the past. Overriding the block in transmission of the nerve by placing an electronic bridge to restore communication. It is absolutely amazing technology.
Sergio Canavero looks exactly like the kind of the guy who would be looking into head transplants. Like, if I had no idea what he looked like and was asked to draw him. It would look like that that guy.
Right? Like why is he wearing circular glasses on top of being bald and a nerve surgeon? This is exactly how Doctor Thaddeus Sivana looked like in the early days of the superman comics.
They probably do way more good with this by NOT actually performing head swaps, but with the knowledge and power to do so, they could repair spinal breaks that paralyze people. If you can reattach a spinal cord you've severed on purpose, you should be able to repair one that was accidentally severed. And THAT would be HUGE.
As a scientist who worked in neuroscience...spinal injuries are never a knife-like cut...typically a crush or pulled apart which is much different. Also, time is of the essence.. the body quickly responds to the injury and sets up chemical and physical barriers which hinders repair. Even if they cut them nicely and put them together a lot of connections will be wrong..like putting to 1000 wire cut cables together with a pool of solder. Some relearning may be possible, and enough may be ok to allow survival but it could be a painful strange existence. That said a lot of progress has been made and what used to be impossible is now possible. Thus, research should still continue as new technologies appear.
@@scottsluggosrule4670 I'm not saying it would be easy or simple. I'm simply saying... if they can do what they're trying to do... BIG IF... but if... then they would probably be far enough along to fix the injuries AS WELL. The human body is quite capable, so who knows what might be possible once the spinal cord injury is reset. Not saying it would be perfect... but there are many levels of "any improvement is better" that I think people would be happy to reach.
No a severed spine on purpose is SO different from one severed by accident. Severing on purpose would be a clean cut. Accidental could be a nasty tear that would be super difficult to reattach.
They did this with rats, and the rats got around 90% mobility back. The body simply retrained itself for the new spinal connections. And any damage to the spine could be corrected by simply cutting above and below the existing damage and replacing it with the synthetic replacement. I'm sure a paraplegic or a quadriplegic would be happy with 90% mobility back versus none. And this was all done before Christopher reeves died. He famously said they've got the technology to do it then. I'm sure in all these years they've made significant improvements. Also, you should do a video on the Italian doctor who was experimenting on fetus transfers from a natural womb to an artificial one. He used goats. They were successful. I remember reading about this in the early 90's. Somehow, he and his research were never mentioned again.
@Shinobubu You better have good insurance… or maybe you can just pass that debt off to the half-alive person your head has been grafted on to? Interesting legal question…
@@IWannaBeAnArtistToo yeah it took me a couple reads cuz instead of jumping to "this guys an idiot", i usually figure, "this guy doesnt proofread, what is he *trying* to say"
Yeah. I got a big smile on my face. Happiness isn’t always found in what you think you want most. Sometimes good unexpected things just come along. I’m really glad for this guy. I hope his joy lasts a full long life.
Kind of surprised the example of Alison Botha didn't come up. In one of the many true crime channels, I watched her amazing story. After describing the head as "barely still connected" from a brutal knife attack, the story continues as she somehow managed to not only get up but then walk to find help while holding her in head in place (among other problems).
The book Frankenstein never mentioned electricity at all, that was something the movie added. The book was actually a first person account of events as told by Dr Frankenstein on his deathbed, and he specifically made sure not to say how he reanimated the corpse because he didn't want anyone to do it again.
It's been years since I've read it but was it even stated that it was a reanimated corpse? I seem to remember it being even more vague than that. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any mention of stitching together pieces of different corpses, and the thing was bigger than most humans, so it was implied to be an entirely new organism.
@@gh0st_b0yfriendi studied this book in literature clas a few years ago, and iirc the doc took parts from a graveyard? could just be me misremembering things. all i remember was my teacher going on about how the description of the monster showed how the process was an affront to nature or smth
@@gh0st_b0yfrienddude did you even read the book? He got his parts from grave robbing and the butcher. I was commissioned a few years ago to draw a rendition of the monster, which I used only descriptions from to book to make so it would be a fresh take and it explicitly states he had to get an ear off of a pig and that it was near impossible to find eyes or a scalp with hair that was to his liking
Can I be honest? I read that and really hated Victor... Like sure Mr. Monster killed but if only Victor took responsibility of his creation... I mean guy was confused and I really got hooked on the part where Monster was trying to find sympathy and companionship with the blind old man. Also can't help but compare this to parents who got a kid just coz of "curiosity", did a bad job of raising them and is acting like Victor Frankenstein, like blaming all their miseries to the child. Like they had a part to play on the why, cause and effect thing. I could be alone siding with the monster but unfortunately that's what I got when I read it D:
Spinal cord repair would change millions of lives overnight. It's not the complete end goal obviously, but it's prospectively a huuuuuge step. Sadly, these sorts of fields and breakthroughs have regular hype cycles. Kinda like how fusion is always 30 years away, but some break through means it's now always only 20 years away lol. It's seriously hard to overstate how big spinal cord repair would be though. You're nearing the (physical) medical end game, there isn't a whole lot left that can't be [reasonably] done via surgery. Again though this all requires tons of assumptions like high success rate, affordability, access, technology, etc.
I mean it seems like the only reason you would do it currently, would be if the person's already paralyzed and needed multiple new organs. So then it would be just a matter of easier to switch the body instead of moving all the organs... 😳
I'm really glad to hear that the guy who had initially volunteered for the transplant is in a stable condition and married with kids. I can't fault him for having been interested in such an experimental procedure since I'm sure it's extremely difficult to handle having a degenerative illness, but I'm so happy to hear that he's doing well now.
@@Peaches-i2i The surgery didn't happen.Valery Spiridonov, the man who had volunteered, backed out after his condition became stable and he found a wife. Head transplants are currently still a pretty far-flung idea, and I really don't know when or if the technology will exist for one.
Even if you transplant the head perfectly onto the body, there is a high likelihood that the body will just reject the head. We need to first figure out how to make the body accept transplant organs without just using immunosuppressants.
So true! People are completely glossing over the fact that transplanting only a kidney is not always successful. The patient also ends up on immunosuppressive medications, which puts them at greater risk of other disease and infection.
I was thinking about this too. And even in the case that we somehow magically make the body accept the head (which, like you said, would be very unlikely since organ transplants are already so dicey with immunosuppressants), I wonder if there would be issues with body dysmorphia caused by being in a body that is LITERALLY not your own. Even if you're transplanted on a body that's similar to yours (same sex, similar build, skin tone, etc), there's still going to be differences. Maybe that wouldn't be as big of an issue as I'm thinking, but body dysmorphia can happen over such small things, having an entirely new body seems like something that could cause it.
@@stagewrong6492 when people lose digits and limbs, they often experience something called phantom pain. Apparently it can be chronic and severe. So yes, people may experience body dysmorphia as well as phantom pain throughout their whole body. But for people who want to try this procedure, usually the alternative is death anyway. So I imagine they would still give it a try if there was a chance it would work, even with all the awful side effects.
@@stagewrong6492I imagine it could be helped with exercise and physical therapy. gradually getting used to the body through relearning movement might do some good
I don't know the clinical term, but almost 15 years ago, my shattered elbow was repaired using "nano sugar sticks" as an experiment here in Denmark. Only study i could find on it, was done on rats. Worked! Elbow has around 80% mobility
I'm a teacher and I had a student in my class that has complications. One day I noticed a scar on his neck. I asked the parent, and they told me that his spinal card detached ... they were able to reattach it, but it caused developmental complications. This is why I hope it does become successful to fix. The idea of a 'body' transplant... just what we need, rich people trying to buy your body. :P This was a "amazing stories" episode where an old person wanted to buy a younger mans body. weird.. but a memory I have. Imagine just swapping bodies instead of gender surgeries.
Sound & Light may be another most effective options. But since Sound & Light can't be patented, its less likely. However, machines which produce it could be, if it worked. Meanwhile, going to say something here that is going to sound unbelievable. I did fully remedy severe Macular Degeneration in a woman & my dog with cataracts. Gone. Never returned. Eyes improved in a few days, then weeks, more over a few months. One treatment did that. She could see everything, though did use reading glasses. In her case she'd been to Mac Degen Docs for a couple years with zero improvement. Months prior to giving the Woman the treatment i had her Mac Degen results printed on paper., which they'd not ever done before. The visit after the drops was the first time ever her condition improved & significantly, which i had them print on paper. I did the same for my dog. Same rate of improvement, though no 'medical records' substantiation. During following days weeks, months my dogs vision became better & better, as her ability to find things, look around, see me clearly & respond to hand signals, open arms, her doggy friends up the block etc. Remember, eyes ARE the brain. So did i reverse 'brain damage'? Good question. What did i use? I created a very simple plasma, which, during its creation produces Amino Acids which were harvested. Using Distilled Water, a method for 'copying' the plasma, & with the Distilled Water only, never the plasma & a few different Amino Acids, using a medical dropper, took up some Aminos with Distilled Copied Water & drops on the eyes. IT IS THAT SIMPLE, Folks. All Natural & Godly. And Ancient technology. So to me Spinal Cord healing or regeneration is a high possibility & so much easier than we're led to believe. I keep it to myself, & offer it only to those whom are absolutely trusted. & know how to keep their damn mouths shut! I've helped many dogs with various eye disease, & some injuries. They suffer NOTHING whatsoever, only drops in the eyes. Whats especially sweet is the dogs KNOW its for their good & they are so tender & sweet with the drops. AM NOT BRAGGING. I am however, SICK OF BIG MED & THEIR POISONS, even dental numbing injections contain patented vaxxx poisons! Most everything is made in Demonic Commie China! DO NOT TAKE THEIR POISONS, even over the counter meds are poisons! And one last thing STOP GIVING YOUR PETS VAXXX'S. Stop it! If any are really necessary, ONCE in their life time ONLY, as the puppy basics, but i truly don't even want those anymore in my dogs. NEVER ALLOW VAXX'S AGAIN. Tell the Veterinarian NO MORE VAXXX's. I watch my friends dogs go to the vet & get "yearly vaxx's" then suddenly in two weeks time the dogs have CANCERS, or some killing disease or condition & they DIE. NO MORE VAXX's!!! Our pets should never be getting yearly vaxxx's much less OUR CHILDREN. Stay away from them! I have so many simple, natural remedies for diseases. I even have a plasma copy for Flea Medications! Yes! anyway... thanks & stay sane
I have SEVERE nerve pain from a traumatic csection I had 20 years ago where at least one nerve was cut while I had surgery without anesthesia. I cant imagine the pain that would register on a body where all of your nerves had been cut and reconnected.
...and connected improperly. Horrific. I believe nerves don't come with little coloured labels for the Doctor to correctly connect, like the speaker wires on a stereo.
@@mikemotorbike4283 it's worse than that, there's no magical uniform interconnect, this nerve goes to that specific location, it's all highly individual. The closest that comes is regions that supply sensory vs motor impulses to muscles within the spinal cord structures. So, nerves that say, controlled your toes might connect now to your knee on one side, ankle on the other, if one can get the nerves to actually connect.
@@mikemotorbike4283true. There is no map. The pathologist who Drew the biopsies from my breast and lymph nodes hit the nerve as though it had a target on it.
@@iDewythis can happen in emergency c-sections when the life of the person having the baby is at stake. Like if they are bleeding. There isn’t enough time to properly give anesthesia. I think local anesthesia can be give. But obviously that can only do so much. And it depends on the individual situation. A c-section like that is a desperate last ditch attempt to save the mother and/or baby.
14:54 reattaching a spinal cord would be HUGE if true, because aside from the head transplant thing (actually it would even become minor compared to the following), healing the spinal cord would help thousands of quadriplegic people who had spinal injury 18:0321:17
An issue I haven’t heard anyone talk about is that it’s gotta be a lot easier to find people that want a new body than to find people willing to donate their body. You’d have to find people that have just died whilst still having a body that can still be alive?
I was thinking that too, people want to keep their brain rather than their own body, plenty of people already change their body when they don’t need to but aren’t willing to change their brain
If you had a system set up for it it's not as impossible as you think. A *lot* of people die from just head injury, typically fairly healthy people on, say, motorbikes. Perfect sample population.
I still remember watching this news and at that time I was TERRIFIED by this and lost almost an entire night's sleep thinking about this head transplant thing. After seeing this video on my feed just now I realized that 9 years have passed since then.
A year before Stephen hawking died I sent him a proposal to become the 1st head transplant. His assistant wrote back that Dr hawking liked it but declined. He sent me his last autographed book as his gift
I don't know if it will ever work to transplant a head to a new body, but still... there is a big difference between violently sever a spine and gently cut it. Enough difference to make the head transplant possible? Maybe... and maybe not, but it would be the easier fix of the two.
If I recall correctly, Valery volunteered for this surgery for the reasons you mentioned - he had a pretty well informed and realistic attitude toward it. As someone with a chronic illness, while I don't think I can fully fathom what volunteering for something for this would be like, I did relate at least to his attitude about it and what he said. I am so happy to hear that he is doing well, and found happiness. There are plenty of disabled folks with hot spouses, some of them have been generous enough to share their experiences of what life is like being a disabled person with a life and not merely a sad or "inspirational" story, which its pretty cool.
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, took 23 attempts of grafting dog heads onto the bodies of other dogs, until he finally managed to create one that survived for 4 days by connecting their circulatory systems and vertebrae, 1959
As a chemical engineer, I'm reminded that Cindy Crawford dropped out of a Chem. E. program to become a supermodel. It's a temptation that we all face, because we're all absolute smokeshows.
I remember reading the problem with head/brain transplant ideas is that we only think of the brain as its separate own organ, but the organ is really the entire CNS, or full nervous system, and it would probably be a much more tractable task (relatively speaking) to transplant an entire nervous system. It made me realize, the level of advancement, and understanding, and control, and multiple technologies needed to even make a head transplant doable, medicine could more easily solve the many problems motivating the need for said transplant in the first place.
no its not, by that logic when person gets quadriplegic because of injury then they loose brain capacity? are handicapped people stupid just because of their injury? the fact that someone researched something and got to a working hyopothesis does not mean its done and its truth.. its just a hyopothethesis. wait why are you watching brain transplant videos?
I have no doubt though that all of this came from the publicity from volunteering for the head transplant to begin with. I bet you any money that's what first intrigued his wife.
When you described them “labeling” the nerves, muscle, and blood system, I can’t help but imagine them doing it like a car stereo using masking tape on each wire and a sharpie to label each connection 🤣
There are about 650K +/- 100K nerve fibres coming out of the spinal chord (couldn't find the number in a single cross section). labelling could take a while
The thought of transplanting the entire spine and brain sounds like the easiest method, while also still being an insane amount of work all the while the brain is probably dying.
The brain transplant reminds me of that one Cyanide and Happiness short with patients repeatedly riding a motorcycle off a hospital roof because the same brain is being transplanted to other patients
For anyone curious, UA-cam does indeed let people show the two headed dog in their videos. I've seen it posted here many times. Here's the rub: it will age restrict the video containing said two headed canine and probably not let you monetize it. "Old UA-cam" is still here, you just aren't gonna find that kind of content randomly anymore because it's all age restricted, which kills it in the algorithm, which is why this dude doesn't show it. Not a knock, most people these days making these slickly edited video essays aren't doing it purely out of passion lol. This is their job, or in some cases they're at least hoping to make it their job. Gotta pay for that production and pump that viewer count up! And I wouldn't have stumbled upon this video.
The funniest thing to me is that UA-cam loves to restrict monetization, but there are still ads. The whole point of demonetization is to protect brands from being associated with "offensive" content, and yet, Google doesn't give a shi and I can guarantee you brands don't either. Children videos allowing ads is another hilarious way Google makes more money with a questionable decision. They pretend they care and so do brands, but deep down, Google is just trying to find ways to remove some income from creators and brands pretend they wouldn't want their ads on "offensive" videos (keep in mind that swearing can already make videos lose money, but you really think brands care? lmao it's just Google getting a. larger piece of the pie).
Nah, I actively prefer low production videos made with passion if it means people making "content" just to grab clicks and flood the Internet with diluted, poor information give up. Some good content might be sacrificed, but the overall landscape would be much more comfortable. Also, it's not 2005 anymore, so even the lowest budget videos will look comparatively well-produced.
Sure, but that won't advance the science required to save people in his condition (and many more others suffering with others) from their trapped lives. So... where's the win? In the fact that you've successfully dehumanized the doctor because he's lacking ethics? Ethics based on what? The same ethics of millions of doctors who studied forbidden or macabre science at some point done by a person willing to push the boundary? Boy... do i have some bad news for you... if you think ANY of the medical procedures in use today EVER started as clean procedures without a single ethical concern... or religious one. None of them are clean, they've just been white washed by time and ignorance. Is the doctor the one who'd get this clicked in? More than likely not, but is your thinking Bull? Yup. Because you lack the context and only go by what you've been spoonfed.
It feels silly to be just gaping and wondering how they did it, but I'd still love to know what makes this all workfor them on an extremely practical and more emotional/internal level. I'm facinated by how he met this seemingly amazing person and how this entire relationship was obviously worth it for both of them, even with the massive communication and disability barriers and the million general problems the world puts disabled people through. If they both co-wrote something about it, or were willing to allow a documentarian to watch a week in their lives, I bet we'd discover that they are very lucky, but also that they are just such particularly well-matched people, with a lot of insight about fielding and avoiding frustration and a deep common grounding. I think we'd all wish our romantic/sexual relationships - really all of our relationships - could be this flexible. While head transplants remain impossible, I think we'd all like to get as much out of both these people's brains as they are willing to show us.
Ok, so first of all, I'm new to the channel, I like listening to you while working my shit corpo job. And I was following this case since it was announced in 2015, cause its bonkers, but also because the Russian guy has the same illness that I do. I usually remember about it once a year and check what's up with it. So I was excited to see this vid, as I didn't follow up on this since a while now. With that being said, I'd like to point out few things: First of all, we no longer call SMA any different names than this, it's just Spinal Muscle Atrophy, but with different types. It's based on various studies, that revealed why it does look so different between people having it. I for example am 28yo and still walk pretty good, am selfsufficent and basically live almost-"normal" life with just few adjustments such as I will not go for a long hike in mountains and shit. The differences in types come from the DNA structure and amount of copies of the gene that we are lacking (I'm oversimplifying this). At first, years ago, different doctors were coming across different types of SMA and didn't make connections between them, hence few different names for it, that were basically erased now (with rememberance of the doctors tho) The amazing stop of regression of the SMA in our Russian dude was because of the first treatment that was intruduced to the marked. The first drug that came out is called Nusinercen, is pricey AF but stops the progression. Since then 2 other drugs came out and more are in various stages of development. And lastly, I do not apprecieate the way you talked about him getting married to some hot chick. I get it was a joke, but it kinda sounded diminishing. We gotta stop thinking that severely disabled people are in a way not worthy of love. Sure, we can't be sure wheather this particular marriage is the result of true love or just mutual gains for both of them. But it still doesn't sit right with me, that you've acted as if it was some bizzare case, one in a million. It's like saying that a fat ugly guy cannot have a hot girl, that it's unnatural in some way or whatever, since it is just body shaming and kinda implying that fat people are worse, don't deserve love etc. Same thing happened here. And yea, I do get the joke, but mostly because I am tightly connected with the disabled and SMA community. But imagine hearing this as a person who does not know a lot about health struggles. It's just feeding on the sitgma and hurful stereotypes. Food for thought, I hope it'll shed a little more light on those issues. I just wish to see the world, where we treat all of ourselves with dignity and respect. Talking about struggles of disabled community is important and valid. And just as you said in some other vid of your in context of mental issues, we are living in times where the stigma is way smaller than ever; just don't forget about physical issues along the way.
“No worries, I’ll have that form written and usable by the end of the month” “Four month progress update: more than 25% of the fields now save correctly 🎉”
LOL! So true! Somebody announces that we have one scrum cycle to code, test, and deploy a new SW target. And they have a Christmas list of impossible feature sets. "They" must have talked to Santa instead of the engineers because they say it can't be done. Plop this all on the Program Manager's desk and tell the Project Manager to buckle up. Everything that goes wrong will be their fault. Two weeks! LOL
Liked specifically for the Eddie Izzard "Cake or death!" clip XD Additionally, I'd forgotten that he dropped out of the surgery. Thank you for touching back on this and ensuring that we received your information.
Just a side note here, I am overjoyed that you chose to use footage from Young Frankenstein instead of any of the other actual Frankenstein flicks. Well done.
I did a documentary of the first head transplant experiments in 1962 by Dr. White. His family gave me his original footage. I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. White on camera. The film DOES show graphic images of his experiments on monkies.
I'm happy to announce they actually have a fix for that. It's a very simple procedure where they directly infuse a large amount of cash directly into your spinal column. Then with the leftover cash you can bail yourself out from having to work ever again and your herniated disk wouldn't matter anymore. Oh what? You don't have the cash? Well that's unfortunate.
As someone with some expertise in this area and having spoken to neuroscientists who very specifically specialize in the mechanics of spinal cord injury and repair - this is PURE FANTASY - and will almost certainly never be possible. The reason for this is extremely simple - well there's two parts to it. The first part is understanding that humans develop their nervous systems by functional connections in practice - not by design/plan. Nerves don't 'go to' particular parts of the body when they're growing - instead a crapton of nerves get sent out in that direction - and they're going to hit the required targets at the end - but you have no idea beforehand which nerves will get to which targets. The central nervous system then operates backwards it needs to achieve a function and it'll obviously match and pair with the nerves that achieve that functional outcome. All those other nerves and neurons that don't achieve function? They die off over time - when we talk about your brain 'maturing' over time this is mostly what's being referred to just more periphery - where an absolutely massive proportion of your neurons are pruned leaving you with just the stuff you're actively using. So now think about the spinal cord.... Imagine cutting into a big fat communications cable, with literally MILLIONS of individual fibreoptic lines in it... and you have NO IDEA which one is which, you might have a decent idea where roughly something will be but if it's not 1:1 it's a potential disaster, it wont work... if you were to slice that giant cable perfectly, and then move it apart like 1mm using precise machines, then try to move it back to re-create a connection.... chances are even then you'd not get it exactly right. Now imagine if instead of a consistent and fairly durable communications cable you were dealing with floopy floppy squishy flesh goo that has a tendency to recede, move, leak, or begin to die when cut.... okay that seems near impossible even when you begin with a perfectly connected spinal cord... but what if they were totally different... if there was no way to position it to match 1:1 even hypothetically with magic involved. That's only one part though - what really takes it from 'inconceivable' to 'impossible' is the second part.... and that's material limits. To put it simply - our understanding of physics would have to be effectively completely wrong in order to allow for any material/tech that could bridge the gaps between neurons needing to be reconnected. It's the same issue that makes brain-machine-interfaces that can effectively restore function impossible. The required electrode density would have to break our understanding of chemistry completely in order to be possible. Neurons are not wires - they do not work in the same way wires do. Neurons don't have the same problems that wires do when it comes to interference or cross-talk, and the material requirements for what it takes to send particular levels of current and voltage would necessitate an amount of material that would make them functionally unusable due to scale.... and like... everything else... ahhh it's a bit big of a topic to summarize super concisely -.-... why do I do this 😆ah well just passionate about this stuff I guess and if you are too you've got enough so gonna go make food now lol
Wouldn’t that first part be cleared up with a better scanner? Better model maker. And I’m sure a machine could quickly and efficiently (eventually) be created to help with this. As for the second part. Seems like we need to invent a new type of human wire. Or be allowed to play around with nerve stem cells. And then those could be used instead of our inefficient wires Lol at least that’s my interpretation with no real biological background lol
Never say never🔪 Why are you absolutely sure that the brain couldn't rewire itself and figure out what all those new neural connections do? Sure, it's probably doomed to immediately self destruct as it's unable to control lungs,heart, digestive system, but fundamentally, the process is absolutely there, as we've all done it whilst being fetuses. Your point one is really more of not in our lifetime rather than never. Point two is much better
I think you didn't get it, we need an artificial biological neck adapter in order to rewire the "pins" in the body to the correct dimensions of the brain and to put electrodes to allow controlling the body to keep it alive with the adapter, then we need an ion beam cutter to cut ATOMICALLY FLAT both the adapter's end and the head and then join them in a xenon atmosphere. Growing the neck adapter isn't so hard, the hard part is to orient the right filament to the right wiring.
@@jaazz90 yes we are absolutely sure on this - neurons are not wires, they are functional - and those functions are spatial. It's possible due to proximity that a few could approximate a workable solution but that's maybe a few hundred out of tens of millions. The process of our development is not reversible or repeatable, you can't re-do it.
@@fss1704 oh no don’t worry, i definitely didn’t get it. And i understand (abstractly) how creating something the body can use efficiently and effectively and painlessly would be extremely difficult. (I’m talking about the spinal cord to spinal cord here, not brain to spinal cord) But back to my point, in reference to your “connecting the right filament to the right wiring”, that basically connecting part a with part a, yes? A very complicated map. I don’t think it sounds impossible for a machine/scanner/model to identify linking nerves and then connect them. Im thinking like how all roads look the same and meander wherever, but they all have an individual name or identifiers. Even if the road was cut with an earthquake or even teleported somewhere else a machine or person could still technically find out where it originated from (their are people who can look at an image of a road and tell you exactly where in the world it’s located) So a machine might (in the future) be able identify which nerve road goes to which nerve road. Now i don’t know if a machine would be able to identify everything fast enough before everything below the severing dies, especially with the way op describe nerves as rooting out and finding a place rather thanfollowing a preset architectural roadmap but ya never know
If my head was transplanted on another body, I would totally introduce myself as the person whose body I have and tell everybody they switched this smart head on me.
@@TheSpoilerist That's likely for the best. Insulting your life saving donor is a bit beyond my personal taste, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Just pretend you actually are STILL the other guy.... trip up neuroscientists for a while, saying that you've got the memories of the new head, but you KNOW you are the original person. What could they do to prove you wrong?
Honestly the biggest problem isn’t the spinal cord issue - it would be rejection by the host’s immune system. You can easily die from just a mis-matched kidney transplant. There is no way a complex tissue system like an entire head could be stabilized and the immune system arrested enough to allow the organism to continue living. There are just too many cellular responses systems involved and rejection would be inevitable.
Transplants such as these, combined with the recent eye transplant on a blind man could completely change millions of people's lives. (Until corruption and greed kick in and make it inaccessible for those who truly need it, of course.)
@sweet999dark In Warhammer 40,000, the counter-faction with the human race are not the alien species but the antihuman faction specifically engineered to bring dark energy to overwhelm the material world. I am one of those antihuman proponents, I want the poor people to eat each other via Soylent Green-equivalents while they are being used via manipulation (subliminal messaging, propaganda, mass media, dis/misinformation campaigns etc.) to induce hatred against each other so that their control over natural, human and/or mental resources the rich people so coveted gets coveted. Once I learnt the meta of life, the only way to win the game of life, is not to participate in it.
I find things like this surgery so funny. As a microbiologist I see this as a novelty with no practical use in the future. By the time the technology exists to perform this surgery, there will likely be methods to treat all or most of the ailments that this surgery would be used to treat, and it would be done without the extremely unnecessary risk.
Uuuuuh. You do realize that all this stuff is almost possible. Nerve reconnection is a thing. It would just need to be done on a bigger scale. Maybe use automated microsurgery to reconnect the individual spinal nerve bundles. Meanwhile to actually have brain uploads and in vivo genetic editing which would be needed for a lot of these conditions, that would be still decades away.
I'm relieved to know that Valery dropped out because his condition stabilized and that he found love. I was following this somewhat closely years back and the narrative seemed to be that medical professionals got to him and explained that: if he goes through with it, there's a potential for him to go completely insane and how it was going a fate worse than death lol... Also, I remember cavanero talking about this. He said something like, it's feasible to reduce the spinal cord in a way that it would be less work to reattach it but still maintain its functionality... The whole thing is just bonkers. This was such a cool video, I really enjoyed your insight into this because I was kinda wondering how all this panned out. It's been crickets for quite a few years.
Yes! Too many UA-camrs just flood you with information by talking fast and moving through their points without hesitation. It's beyond refreshing to watch a video where the presenter knows how to... present.
If you live in a country that makes euthanasia legal, then I think that you should be able to apply for this procedure. Everything was scary and "impossible" the first few times it was done. Even if you don't survive, you'll know that you are improving medical research. (And if you're a Vegan, imagine all the mice, rats, and monkey's lives you will save!)
There are worse things than death. Imagine living in agony your whole life, only to have others so proudly claim that they know what is ethical, they know what is good for you and so you must suffer.
@@jazzabighits4473 Imagine nerves wrongly attached, the pain would be excruciating. If you can push a button to self-kill yourself on a wrong surgery situation, all fine!
@@YochevedDesigns In Canada half the people who opt for MAID do so because they get no housing supports. They would need even more support after the "successful" head transplant.
I fall asleep to Joe Scott. Please believe me when I say this is the highest compliment I could give a UA-camr. A voice that cradles me to sleep is like a warm blanket.
I don't see this UA-camr working for my sleep needs. I like Bedtime Stories and Disturban History. I guess I have a thing for British voices, and disturbing, violent true crime/ mystery type stuff.
This is fascinating. You did a great job of pulling out the logic from fantasy. I have had nerve ablation surgery to help with pain from late stage Lyme Disease. The amount medicine DOESN'T know about nerves was unsettling. "The nerves will find each other again somewhere between 3 months and 3 years from now. We don't like to sever the nerves from their source completely because they have a tendency to 'find' the wrong loose ends." This was at Stanford. My nerves found each other and got back to creating pain within 6 weeks. I declined further treatments. You are so right about the monkey who was claimed to have had a severed spinal cord repaired. I call bs. Yesterday, I was having a debate with a stranger online (as you do). This person was insisting that I treat my dog's renal failure with crushed pineapple instead of the medication from his vet. "Pineapple gets humans off dialysis!" Well, what are you doing online talking to me? Get on the horn with The Cleveland Clinic and put out the word that the kidney transplant list can be tossed in the trash! (eyeroll)
I have nerve ablation on 4 nerves on each side of my lower spine every 3 months. That's approximately how long they take to reconnect, though sometimes it happens slightly sooner. This is the latest in pain management attempts that started after my back surgery that put a cage in. Started with trigger point Injections , then stronger guided Injections at 4 points on each side, and now the ablations. I don't know what the next treatment will be when these cease to work but for now, along with pain meds, these at least provide some relief. There's definitely not enough known about the science of nerves.
@@Sniperboy5551 Opiates only help with short-term pain. When used over long periods, they actually increase the body's sensitivity to pain because the body compensates for the dulled signaling. It also usually causes addiction and gastrointestinal issues when used long-term. There's a reason there has been an opiate crises in the US -- opiates being used for long term pain treatment was a disaster and didn't even help with chronic pain for most people. So opiates are best for recovering from surgery or acute injury. It's a good thing that we're developing new technologies for chronic pain
I will tell you that every time I'm in a major incident and I need stitches or Staples I request super glue. I do this because when I was 16 and I had stitches it's scarred really bad and I got violently ill after the stitches were removed. I was in a major accident about 2 years ago and I had a head contusion so I requested super glue. The doctor looked at me funny and I asked him what super glue was made for. I then asked him if he had medical grade super glue which he replied yes I do. He told me it was going to hurt and I told him I would rather a little pain now than a scar later. That contusion was bigger than the first one when I was 16 but you can feel the stitched contusion that was smaller and you can't even see or feel the spot where he super glued. The hair even grew back. My point is that cyanoacrylate is some amazing s***.
Think it’s just your body & the way of heeling, maybe also 16 year old you took less care of the wounds in your daily life, knocking it or picking it or even scratching… I have a cut on my leg that was glued back & it’s from about 12 years old & it’s still a bump & visible.
As a 39yo who had abdominal surgery for the 3rd time and got a horrible infection in the stitches... I wish they'd glued me too. (They were dissolving stitches. I cut them, which solved the issue, because I could clean them properly then.)
I think im in the same boat, i have a scar on my finger from what was probably a five stitch cut. Its a pretty gnarly scar. I have no scar on my groin from an abdominal surgery i had, which they glued.
@@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq if you're asking me how and why this works I can explain it in basic terms. When you add the super glue to the wound it actually sterilizes the wound. When you add stitches or Staples to close a wound you're actually adding more holes and damage to the skin. You're also bunching the skin in an unnatural way in certain locations giving you the ridges of your scar line. With super glue you have full contact along the whole wound so the skin is allowed to stretch naturally. It burns like hell because cyanoacrylate does not feel good when you put it in a wound but I have a super high pain tolerance. I would prefer a few moments of pain then I would have to come and get my stitches or Staples taken out. Also when they remove the Staples or stitches they're actually causing stress to that wound. When you remove those sutures your wound relaxes causing great deals of stress on the skin and your mental status. Depending on where the wound is you may even start to feel nauseous after stitches or Staples have been removed. For minor cuts or pretty deep abrasions that are clean and no skin is missing I choose super glue. Make sure that you're not using basic super glue unless it's for a small cut. There's actually a medical version that is more sterile.
“MY NAME IS FRANEKENSTEIN” made me bust out laughing. I must have seen that movie uncountable times cuz my first husband was obsessed with it and movies with that type of humor.
Greetings! Brain transplant is old news. It was first performed by an American surgeon in 1968. I saw in a documentary called StarTrek. Live long and prosper
I have an "unusual" perspective on this because I've attended a surgical neuroseparation (beheading). I'm involved in cryonics, and once had an opportunity to assist (in a peripheral capacity) in the initial steps of a cryosuspension. The patient was a neuro (head only), so after the initial washout and cooling, where the patient is put in an ice bath and attached to a heart lung machine which is used to replace most of the blood with the initial cryoprotectants, it was time for, well, the beheading. I'm very aware of the common perception of cryonics, but having looked deeply into it, followed the research for decades, and gotten to know many of the key people involved, I'm an unflinching supporter. But even in the context of seeing it as a potentially lifesaving technology, the actual vertebrae separation was hard to watch. Heads aren't designed to come off, and it is NOT like in samurai movies! I'm proud to have been involved in a small way in giving this stranger a chance of living in the future, but if I ever meet him there he owes me a beer. I know that most people think that cryonicists are kooky, but while cryonics is speculative, but it makes sense if you accept the possibility/likelihood of the technology required to repair and receive cryonauts (yes, that's the term) being developed in the reasonable future. However, these people are claiming to be able to transplant heads TODAY, and that's provably bat shit crazy!
@@davekelly1719 You're overestimating what Ai is at this point. We are not meaningfully closer to the Singularity now that we were 5-10 years ago. ChatGPT and what-not are powerful and impressive tools, but they are not intelligent.
We don't need to be able to transplant heads onto spare bodies. We just need to build robotic bodies that can support and be controlled by a disembodied brain. There's no risk of transplant rejection, no need for donor bodies, and no risk of a donor body turning out to have undiagnosed health issues like a ticking time bomb for the recipient. The only thing a robotic body probably wouldn't be able to do is make babies, and when you're giving people functional immortality you don't want to give them the ability to make babies as well anyway.
I remember the face transplant. I am a emergency medical person, I had a nightmare that I had a scene where I had a decapitation that I was desperate to save. I woke up so confused and questioning everything I know. This is crazy to think someone is looking to do this with any urgency.
Pro tip- if you include a notice to skip ahead to avoid a topic include a time stamp to when they can safely skip to to avoid the topic but not skip anything else.
@@robochelle I don't mean to be disrespectful, and I recognize this is totally subjective... but I'm a bit confused. So you're willing to click on a video about Human Head Transplants... arguably a more disturbing and morbid topic, but you draw the line with animals? To re-iterate... I mean no disrespect, just genuinely curious about this perspective.
@@gusvega4372 Not so sure if it's a bot, since the channel has personal videos on it... In hindsight, such morbid topics surrounding any kind of living being surely would garner a negative reaction, and I can understand why somebody would not want to hear or see about it... I was just curious about the original incentive for clicking on this video in the first place. I'm making a bit of an assumption, but wouldn't you wanna avoid Human Head Transplants too? I'm probably putting way too much thought into this... To each their own.
@cmdrdyland even if it's not a bot, I found the comment too incomprehensible. How can a channel advertise other videos when the title itself is self explanatory. Either way, it's a very unsettling topic. Head/body transplants just sound too dystopian.
Not that being an experiment of this caliber isnt noble, its just that now that his life seems to go well then why risk it. I personally think giving your body to science is some of the most noble thing you can do for humanity.
The dog experiment is so hard to see and I am glad it was censored. I saw the dog experiments years ago and it broke my heart to see the animals in that way. I know science comes first over ethics for some but I am very sensitive to animal cruelty or maltreatment. Thank you very much!!
Yeah I went to Latvia and they had the dogs on display in a medicine museum and that was the only time I ever felt uncomfortable about something... that was really disturbing
I have serious ethical issues with this kind of experiment. I had a hard time putting my dog through surgery to have an eye removed because it was already blind and had glaucoma. The thought of how she must’ve felt afterward really unsettled me, and that was a medically beneficial surgery! These experiments though, how are they not considered animal cruelty? I also question the ethics of a head transplant in general. There’s so much we don’t know about how the brain interacts with the body, so how can we justify putting even a willing human through that? As one of the interviewees said, “there are things worse than death.” The thought makes my skin crawl. I think maybe one day it could be ethically justified, but for now it seems like we know too little.
@@spiritofhyrule8131 They are animal cruelty plain and simple. Scientists get away with it because most people don't give a shit. Same thing as factory farming.
This man tried his best to save your weak hearts from shedding tears. See joe Scott did you justice. Meanwhile all our demented twisted sadistic selves wanted to see all the pictures of 2 headed dogs
Thanks for making that video, I like the rhythm you have going on. We're not overwhelmed or rushed into facts or too much information. It was nice to listen to!
True, but it was also about the hubris and blind ambition of science and scientists. Frankenstein succeeded at being a scientist and then promptly failed at taking responsibility by abandoning the monster to his tragic fate.
@@mollydooker9636 I like to sum it up as: "Clever surgeon. Terrible father. Turns out both disciplines were equally important to what he was attempting."
Since his cousin Tom retired at the end of 2023, these Joe Scott videos are the only way that I get my "low-key, off-beat, but informative video" fix. Love your work! :)
As someone who struggles and has occasionally joked about needing a new body this video is particularly horrifying and fascinating. I'm going to be more careful about that kind of joke as I now realize there's always the chance one of my doctors might take me to seriously.
A Doctor can bury his mistakes and a weatherman can be totally wrong for days but I know too many people that had bad outcomes from a hospital Hippocrates is pounding on the stone tablet with The Oath in anger Be strong MRBrew, tough it out. Keep watching videos that have some educational/entertainment value to keep the old head sharp, you only get one Great comment and makes one ponder
Lived for 36 hours or took 36 hours of suffering while it was dying for those 36 hours? Like MAID, people think doctor assisted suicide is compassionate, nothing could be further from the truth. Some take over 24 hours to die and during this time the person is literally drowning and because they are paralyzed they can not scream out or move their body. Its evil and sick.
That's not what it would be like. "You" are your brain, your memories and personality are there. If your head ends up on a different body, you will still have all the same memories and personality, you will still be you, just with a different "life-support" system.
@@dougthompson1598 that's not what he meant. it's a joke of the saying waking up feeling like a new person. but i'll bite. you're far, far more than your brain - you are Serotonin, you are testosterone etc etc etc, it's a big part of how you will feel, part of the personality, mood etc. When depressed you can literally become another person just because there's a big lack of serotonin.. We can also basically just guess since it's not been done.
@@Vurt72but that's just part how "you feel". If that surgery would succeed it would mean you would got back proper Ballance of it... If not it would mean it was not succees and you probably won't live too long anyway.
I once wrote a sci-fi short story about a guy going through therapy, after getting his brain transplanted into the body of a clone. Because clones aren't actually exact copies, not only did he have to do physical therapy to recover from near-paralysis, he also had to mentally cope with living in what looked like someone else's body, despite it being genetically his. In the real world, I could see a lot of good coming from being able to do it, both for full brain swaps and regular spinal repair. But it feels like everyone who buys into it are all really sketchy. If there was more funding towards more respected mainstream research on it, I think it would be worthwhile.
That's Altered Carbon. Great book. Great first TV season. I doesn't really effect the main character because he's a supersoldier trained for this. But other people go nuts
I would transplant my brain at age 75 with no preexisting medical condition if it was a 95%+ survival rate. Thats still considered very dangerous but since quarentine im not depressed i just have kind of a death wish and also i want to be immortal do yeah. I think some shit like this, or synthetic bodies you upload into, will be a thinv in the future with the technological singularity coming. Im fully planning to be immortal but if i die in the process or its not quite me whatever it's good enough. Idrc were all one in the end i think
Hey sir, I've been watching you for over 8 years across multiple forgotten accounts - the work you've put into spreading knowledge in a form that's easily palatable and absorbed is second to none. A lot of stuff I've gotten interested in has been because of a video you've released, and a lot of relationships I've formed have been because of knowledge gained and shared through you. I genuinely appreciate everything you've taught me over the years. I hope you're doing well over there, you cerebral architect.
If you could do the microsurgery (or have the magic glue) necessary to attach a head and body, you could do the microsurgery (or have the magic glue) to repair a spinal cord. That would obviate a lot of cases where a "head transplant" would make "sense" (whatever "sense" could be made about this whole thing). But what about the other cases? Seems the rejection issues would be challenging or overwhelming.
@@nahoj.2569 Yeah, it is hard to even think about how that would go. Would the brain shuts down then the body just stops working or would the organs shut down then the brain stop functioning? Or both simultaneously? Which ever, it seems half of a body getting used to a different other half would be a lot to ask biochemically.
There is so much more than just the logistics of how to do it here. How would it be decided if the body is split up as a donor to several people needing organs, or one person needing a body? And it’s difficult enough for families to donate the organs of their braindead relatives, can you imagine anyone agreeing to doctors cutting off their relative’s head to be discarded while someone gets to walk around in the body??? I agree that it would be an amazing feat to be able to do this, but i don’t think society would use the technique for several generations.
In January I would have thought this guy was a madman. In February I became more aquainted with my neighbor who has ALS. I learned he didn't have nearly as much care as he needed and i began helping 2-3 times a day. I took care of some simple medical and biological needs, basic meals and some... Herbology, which is legal in my state. My point is is that since Febuary his deteoration has been drastic. We just got him an EyeGaze device last week to help him speak. 2 weeks ago the family brought in hospice. If you asked him "Hey, man, do you want to volunteer for this crazy new experiment?" I think he would say yes. He knows he's dying, but if all he had was a few hours to play the drums again (he was amazing) I think he would take it.
Thank you for sharing this. It's an excellent example of how all humans should treat their neighbors. (And everyone.) I wish it were the rule, instead of the exception. Thank you for being awesome!
Yeah thanks for sharing. I wouldn’t blame anyone for being desperate for a solution in that situation.
Becky is helping her ALS neighbor with biological needs? I’m sure he thanks you lol
Sorry sorry, I have the brain of a 14y/o so I must make joke when I think of joke…
But real talk, your neighbor is lucky to have a neighbor who is willing to help. You are very kind
Not enough good people like you in this world.
please look into L-arginine and als, It slowed and in some cases reverses als ITS A cheap supplement available literally everywhere.
My wife heard 22- headed dog, and I had to explain it was actually 20 2- headed dogs.....she was still horrified.
Well that's even more heads, so she should be MORE horrified!
Animal experiments don't bother me at all, forward progress in the name of science.
@@JamesCavender-me6ei it's ok to bother you less, but "not at all" is taking it too far.
Empathy good. Sacrifice wisely.
@@JamesCavender-me6ei Volunteer to be a human subject then. Shouldn't bother you at all, since even more progress will be made than would be with animals.
Its called a body transplant. Not a head transplant. The part you are getting is a body. The mans not getting a new head. Hes getting a new body!!!!
As someone in the medical field , the thought of being able to repair spinal damage would be world changing. This would save so many people from long term complications and deaths. Also, it would be a major step to other neurological conditions!
Do you guys in the medical field look into dmso for the spinal cord?
I saw a video recently where they regrew a person's optic nerve and replaced the eye using stem cells. The future is here.
It. Would prob be held over the general public’s head too. Ever seen repo man? Nobody gonna be able to afford it and then they will own you, financially, or take it back…
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They neurolinks they are perfecting now are going to be miraculous to so many people's lives. It could make permanent spinal cord injuries a thing of the past. Overriding the block in transmission of the nerve by placing an electronic bridge to restore communication. It is absolutely amazing technology.
Sergio Canavero looks exactly like the kind of the guy who would be looking into head transplants. Like, if I had no idea what he looked like and was asked to draw him. It would look like that that guy.
He’s got that look about him.
yeah right buddy
Right? Like why is he wearing circular glasses on top of being bald and a nerve surgeon? This is exactly how Doctor Thaddeus Sivana looked like in the early days of the superman comics.
Dr eggman anyone?
or professor hojo?
The Dr from MGSV.
They probably do way more good with this by NOT actually performing head swaps, but with the knowledge and power to do so, they could repair spinal breaks that paralyze people. If you can reattach a spinal cord you've severed on purpose, you should be able to repair one that was accidentally severed. And THAT would be HUGE.
As a scientist who worked in neuroscience...spinal injuries are never a knife-like cut...typically a crush or pulled apart which is much different. Also, time is of the essence.. the body quickly responds to the injury and sets up chemical and physical barriers which hinders repair. Even if they cut them nicely and put them together a lot of connections will be wrong..like putting to 1000 wire cut cables together with a pool of solder. Some relearning may be possible, and enough may be ok to allow survival but it could be a painful strange existence. That said a lot of progress has been made and what used to be impossible is now possible. Thus, research should still continue as new technologies appear.
@@scottsluggosrule4670 I'm not saying it would be easy or simple. I'm simply saying... if they can do what they're trying to do... BIG IF... but if... then they would probably be far enough along to fix the injuries AS WELL. The human body is quite capable, so who knows what might be possible once the spinal cord injury is reset. Not saying it would be perfect... but there are many levels of "any improvement is better" that I think people would be happy to reach.
armchair scientists on the youtube comment sections after 12 years of rigorous experimentation and research be like
No a severed spine on purpose is SO different from one severed by accident.
Severing on purpose would be a clean cut. Accidental could be a nasty tear that would be super difficult to reattach.
They did this with rats, and the rats got around 90% mobility back. The body simply retrained itself for the new spinal connections. And any damage to the spine could be corrected by simply cutting above and below the existing damage and replacing it with the synthetic replacement. I'm sure a paraplegic or a quadriplegic would be happy with 90% mobility back versus none. And this was all done before Christopher reeves died. He famously said they've got the technology to do it then. I'm sure in all these years they've made significant improvements. Also, you should do a video on the Italian doctor who was experimenting on fetus transfers from a natural womb to an artificial one. He used goats. They were successful. I remember reading about this in the early 90's. Somehow, he and his research were never mentioned again.
imagine brain transplants though, one second youre flying through your windshield, the next youre waking up in a body that just isnt yours.
And a medical bill from the 200 surgeons that operated on you.
@Shinobubu You better have good insurance… or maybe you can just pass that debt off to the half-alive person your head has been grafted on to? Interesting legal question…
Yeah waking up in a body that isn't yours but you also can't move a thing! 😩
whose insurance policy would it apply to? 😮 (doesn't matter, they'd deny coverage regardless)
Who would donate their body? Imagine you wake up in a body of a serial killer
Aside from being totally cured. That has got to be one of the best reasons EVER to drop out of the surgery. I'm so happy for him.
He wasn't cured 😂 it just stopped getting worse. He still had a terrible disease. Silly goose
@@worldeater161reread that sentence and put a comma where he accidentally put a period. He didn’t say he was cured.
@@IWannaBeAnArtistToo yeah it took me a couple reads cuz instead of jumping to "this guys an idiot", i usually figure, "this guy doesnt proofread, what is he *trying* to say"
@@IWannaBeAnArtistTooahh
Yeah. I got a big smile on my face. Happiness isn’t always found in what you think you want most. Sometimes good unexpected things just come along. I’m really glad for this guy. I hope his joy lasts a full long life.
Kind of surprised the example of Alison Botha didn't come up. In one of the many true crime channels, I watched her amazing story. After describing the head as "barely still connected" from a brutal knife attack, the story continues as she somehow managed to not only get up but then walk to find help while holding her in head in place (among other problems).
What the fffffff. I'm googling this! I need more info! Lol
Holy hell I need to read up on this one...
Wow just looked this up😮
her case is the worst I've come across in my whole life
@@xyzabc-nu3vd dont go on tor browser lil bro
I was against getting a brain transplant,
but then I changed my mind.
I see what you did there...
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Too good ! Lol
The book Frankenstein never mentioned electricity at all, that was something the movie added. The book was actually a first person account of events as told by Dr Frankenstein on his deathbed, and he specifically made sure not to say how he reanimated the corpse because he didn't want anyone to do it again.
It's been years since I've read it but was it even stated that it was a reanimated corpse? I seem to remember it being even more vague than that. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any mention of stitching together pieces of different corpses, and the thing was bigger than most humans, so it was implied to be an entirely new organism.
@@gh0st_b0yfriendi studied this book in literature clas a few years ago, and iirc the doc took parts from a graveyard? could just be me misremembering things. all i remember was my teacher going on about how the description of the monster showed how the process was an affront to nature or smth
@@gh0st_b0yfrienddude did you even read the book? He got his parts from grave robbing and the butcher. I was commissioned a few years ago to draw a rendition of the monster, which I used only descriptions from to book to make so it would be a fresh take and it explicitly states he had to get an ear off of a pig and that it was near impossible to find eyes or a scalp with hair that was to his liking
Can I be honest? I read that and really hated Victor... Like sure Mr. Monster killed but if only Victor took responsibility of his creation... I mean guy was confused and I really got hooked on the part where Monster was trying to find sympathy and companionship with the blind old man.
Also can't help but compare this to parents who got a kid just coz of "curiosity", did a bad job of raising them and is acting like Victor Frankenstein, like blaming all their miseries to the child. Like they had a part to play on the why, cause and effect thing.
I could be alone siding with the monster but unfortunately that's what I got when I read it D:
@@privatesarusollamia4698 That's pretty much the whole point of the book, it's also why Frankenstein is happy to die in the end
The spinal cord repair would change so much in the medical field. Once I see promising results on that we can talk of head transplants.
Spinal cord repair would change millions of lives overnight. It's not the complete end goal obviously, but it's prospectively a huuuuuge step.
Sadly, these sorts of fields and breakthroughs have regular hype cycles. Kinda like how fusion is always 30 years away, but some break through means it's now always only 20 years away lol.
It's seriously hard to overstate how big spinal cord repair would be though. You're nearing the (physical) medical end game, there isn't a whole lot left that can't be [reasonably] done via surgery. Again though this all requires tons of assumptions like high success rate, affordability, access, technology, etc.
Ummm seems like we are already talking about head transplants 🤔
@@JerzeyGEMS Can't have a cake without knowing how to make a cupcake/having flour.
I mean it seems like the only reason you would do it currently, would be if the person's already paralyzed and needed multiple new organs. So then it would be just a matter of easier to switch the body instead of moving all the organs... 😳
That’s what I was going
Sergio : "I'm going to figure out how to do a successful head transplant"
Medical industry : "we will be following your career with mild concern"
I'm really glad to hear that the guy who had initially volunteered for the transplant is in a stable condition and married with kids. I can't fault him for having been interested in such an experimental procedure since I'm sure it's extremely difficult to handle having a degenerative illness, but I'm so happy to hear that he's doing well now.
It will be good for him, but it will be technology misused by the ultrarich as usual.
Please let me know if I'm wrong but wasn't this whole head transplant thing an ad for MGSV?
@@Peaches-i2i The surgery didn't happen.Valery Spiridonov, the man who had volunteered, backed out after his condition became stable and he found a wife. Head transplants are currently still a pretty far-flung idea, and I really don't know when or if the technology will exist for one.
@@maxwellhill4754 there was speculation but it doesn't seem like it was ever anything more than a rumor.
@@Peaches-i2i the surgery didn't happen. We don't have the technology for it yet.
Even if you transplant the head perfectly onto the body, there is a high likelihood that the body will just reject the head. We need to first figure out how to make the body accept transplant organs without just using immunosuppressants.
So true! People are completely glossing over the fact that transplanting only a kidney is not always successful. The patient also ends up on immunosuppressive medications, which puts them at greater risk of other disease and infection.
Yep, the arms will just reach up and RIP it right off!
I was thinking about this too. And even in the case that we somehow magically make the body accept the head (which, like you said, would be very unlikely since organ transplants are already so dicey with immunosuppressants), I wonder if there would be issues with body dysmorphia caused by being in a body that is LITERALLY not your own. Even if you're transplanted on a body that's similar to yours (same sex, similar build, skin tone, etc), there's still going to be differences. Maybe that wouldn't be as big of an issue as I'm thinking, but body dysmorphia can happen over such small things, having an entirely new body seems like something that could cause it.
@@stagewrong6492 when people lose digits and limbs, they often experience something called phantom pain. Apparently it can be chronic and severe. So yes, people may experience body dysmorphia as well as phantom pain throughout their whole body.
But for people who want to try this procedure, usually the alternative is death anyway. So I imagine they would still give it a try if there was a chance it would work, even with all the awful side effects.
@@stagewrong6492I imagine it could be helped with exercise and physical therapy. gradually getting used to the body through relearning movement might do some good
I don't know the clinical term, but almost 15 years ago, my shattered elbow was repaired using "nano sugar sticks" as an experiment here in Denmark. Only study i could find on it, was done on rats. Worked! Elbow has around 80% mobility
Wow!
Very happy for you, hope the procedure helps a ton of other people, thanks to you, too!
Nano sticks, son!
@@ultimaxkom8728 They harden in response to physical trauma!
0:22 Mr. Beast noooo 😭
IM CRYING
I was about to say the exact same thing
I just watched watched a video about consciousness in decapitated heads, and the algorithm sent me here 54 seconds after upload.
Same here!
One of Simmon Whistler's channels?
I thought of Joe immediately upon seeing Simon’s video😂
Joe did a video on the same subject years ago.
Don't pay too much attention to the predictions on post decapitation consciousness.
Being able to fix spinal cords alone would be monumental.
Fix those, also fix optic nerves and even auditory nerves.
I'm a teacher and I had a student in my class that has complications. One day I noticed a scar on his neck. I asked the parent, and they told me that his spinal card detached ... they were able to reattach it, but it caused developmental complications. This is why I hope it does become successful to fix.
The idea of a 'body' transplant... just what we need, rich people trying to buy your body. :P
This was a "amazing stories" episode where an old person wanted to buy a younger mans body. weird.. but a memory I have.
Imagine just swapping bodies instead of gender surgeries.
Sound & Light may be another most effective options. But since Sound & Light can't be patented, its less likely. However, machines which produce it could be, if it worked. Meanwhile, going to say something here that is going to sound unbelievable. I did fully remedy severe Macular Degeneration in a woman & my dog with cataracts. Gone. Never returned. Eyes improved in a few days, then weeks, more over a few months. One treatment did that. She could see everything, though did use reading glasses. In her case she'd been to Mac Degen Docs for a couple years with zero improvement. Months prior to giving the Woman the treatment i had her Mac Degen results printed on paper., which they'd not ever done before. The visit after the drops was the first time ever her condition improved & significantly, which i had them print on paper. I did the same for my dog. Same rate of improvement, though no 'medical records' substantiation. During following days weeks, months my dogs vision became better & better, as her ability to find things, look around, see me clearly & respond to hand signals, open arms, her doggy friends up the block etc.
Remember, eyes ARE the brain. So did i reverse 'brain damage'? Good question.
What did i use? I created a very simple plasma, which, during its creation produces Amino Acids which were harvested. Using Distilled Water, a method for 'copying' the plasma, & with the Distilled Water only, never the plasma & a few different Amino Acids, using a medical dropper, took up some Aminos with Distilled Copied Water & drops on the eyes. IT IS THAT SIMPLE, Folks. All Natural & Godly. And Ancient technology.
So to me Spinal Cord healing or regeneration is a high possibility & so much easier than we're led to believe. I keep it to myself, & offer it only to those whom are absolutely trusted. & know how to keep their damn mouths shut! I've helped many dogs with various eye disease, & some injuries. They suffer NOTHING whatsoever, only drops in the eyes. Whats especially sweet is the dogs KNOW its for their good & they are so tender & sweet with the drops.
AM NOT BRAGGING. I am however, SICK OF BIG MED & THEIR POISONS, even dental numbing injections contain patented vaxxx poisons! Most everything is made in Demonic Commie China! DO NOT TAKE THEIR POISONS, even over the counter meds are poisons!
And one last thing STOP GIVING YOUR PETS VAXXX'S. Stop it! If any are really necessary, ONCE in their life time ONLY, as the puppy basics, but i truly don't even want those anymore in my dogs. NEVER ALLOW VAXX'S AGAIN. Tell the Veterinarian NO MORE VAXXX's. I watch my friends dogs go to the vet & get "yearly vaxx's" then suddenly in two weeks time the dogs have CANCERS, or some killing disease or condition & they DIE. NO MORE VAXX's!!! Our pets should never be getting yearly vaxxx's much less OUR CHILDREN. Stay away from them! I have so many simple, natural remedies for diseases. I even have a plasma copy for Flea Medications! Yes! anyway... thanks & stay sane
Regenerate brain cells
They have had some success with brain implants to send the signal that is damaged to the damaged spine enabling them to walk
I have SEVERE nerve pain from a traumatic csection I had 20 years ago where at least one nerve was cut while I had surgery without anesthesia. I cant imagine the pain that would register on a body where all of your nerves had been cut and reconnected.
...and connected improperly. Horrific. I believe nerves don't come with little coloured labels for the Doctor to correctly connect, like the speaker wires on a stereo.
@@mikemotorbike4283 it's worse than that, there's no magical uniform interconnect, this nerve goes to that specific location, it's all highly individual. The closest that comes is regions that supply sensory vs motor impulses to muscles within the spinal cord structures.
So, nerves that say, controlled your toes might connect now to your knee on one side, ankle on the other, if one can get the nerves to actually connect.
@@mikemotorbike4283true. There is no map. The pathologist who Drew the biopsies from my breast and lymph nodes hit the nerve as though it had a target on it.
Csectioned with no anesthesia???!!! Are you even human?
@@iDewythis can happen in emergency c-sections when the life of the person having the baby is at stake. Like if they are bleeding. There isn’t enough time to properly give anesthesia. I think local anesthesia can be give. But obviously that can only do so much. And it depends on the individual situation. A c-section like that is a desperate last ditch attempt to save the mother and/or baby.
"Every time I think I've stumbled on something legit it Just nopes itself back into Crazy Town." OMG I feel this, dude. I feel it.
14:54 reattaching a spinal cord would be HUGE if true, because aside from the head transplant thing (actually it would even become minor compared to the following), healing the spinal cord would help thousands of quadriplegic people who had spinal injury 18:03 21:17
If it actually worked, it reduce the need for head transplants too
I'm so glad he decided to tell people to skip forward rather than not talking about it at all
An issue I haven’t heard anyone talk about is that it’s gotta be a lot easier to find people that want a new body than to find people willing to donate their body. You’d have to find people that have just died whilst still having a body that can still be alive?
i was thinking the same thing, my best guess would be someone with brain damage on life support.
I was thinking that too, people want to keep their brain rather than their own body, plenty of people already change their body when they don’t need to but aren’t willing to change their brain
If you had a system set up for it it's not as impossible as you think. A *lot* of people die from just head injury, typically fairly healthy people on, say, motorbikes.
Perfect sample population.
People with mental health issues, suicidal…. But those are entirely different moral issues
@@RobinTheBot There's a reason emergency room doctors call motorbikes "donorcycles."
I still remember watching this news and at that time I was TERRIFIED by this and lost almost an entire night's sleep thinking about this head transplant thing. After seeing this video on my feed just now I realized that 9 years have passed since then.
A year before Stephen hawking died I sent him a proposal to become the 1st head transplant. His assistant wrote back that Dr hawking liked it but declined. He sent me his last autographed book as his gift
This is so fucking cool
Big if true
So what was your plan if he said yes?
@@trishoconnor2169 changing the wheels
But how did he sign it tho?
We can't even repair a severed spine, and people thought a head transplant was possible.
Idk about the medical stuff, but changing stuff is easier than repairing them, I suppose it is the same with body parts
We can change a heart, but you can't ever fix one 💔
I don't know if it will ever work to transplant a head to a new body, but still... there is a big difference between violently sever a spine and gently cut it.
Enough difference to make the head transplant possible?
Maybe... and maybe not, but it would be the easier fix of the two.
@@simpleplan100687you’ve got a point.
you didnt think twice before commenting this did you XD
If I recall correctly, Valery volunteered for this surgery for the reasons you mentioned - he had a pretty well informed and realistic attitude toward it. As someone with a chronic illness, while I don't think I can fully fathom what volunteering for something for this would be like, I did relate at least to his attitude about it and what he said. I am so happy to hear that he is doing well, and found happiness. There are plenty of disabled folks with hot spouses, some of them have been generous enough to share their experiences of what life is like being a disabled person with a life and not merely a sad or "inspirational" story, which its pretty cool.
i hope youre happy
“There are plenty of disabled folks with hot spouses” was so out of left field lmao
@@NN-sp9tureminds me Mark Driscoll message "Yeah she's hot but so is hell"
Hot women don't just marry someone because of love. She is after something.
@@jritechnology
Because someone is hot they can’t feel love lmao okay who hurt you
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, took 23 attempts of grafting dog heads onto the bodies of other dogs, until he finally managed to create one that survived for 4 days by connecting their circulatory systems and vertebrae, 1959
Not even surprised that their "scientists" were just beheading puppies all the time.
Great chatting to you via the medium of UA-cam Studio! 😅 We should get our heads together more often…
You really should, you make a great team!
Heads together hehe!
But don't lose your mind over it.
i like your clean shaven face better. your facial hair has really grown in.
That would be a banger :)
Thanks for revisiting my story!
Great summary
Woahhhhhh
Send love to you and your family Val.
No way! Awesome 👍! Hope you're doing well! 🖖
HOW DID YOU GET THAT GIRL!?
@@JingleJoe I'm just being awesome:)
A perfect video to watch right before going to bed, in a hospital, a day before a head transplant operation.
You too? Wild.
On my 1st flight ever, from North Carolina to Cancun, the in-flight movie was "La Bamba". No joke. Swear.
Good luck ❤
@tracybeeeee good luck ❤
WOAH
As a chemical engineer, I'm reminded that Cindy Crawford dropped out of a Chem. E. program to become a supermodel. It's a temptation that we all face, because we're all absolute smokeshows.
I remember reading the problem with head/brain transplant ideas is that we only think of the brain as its separate own organ, but the organ is really the entire CNS, or full nervous system, and it would probably be a much more tractable task (relatively speaking) to transplant an entire nervous system.
It made me realize, the level of advancement, and understanding, and control, and multiple technologies needed to even make a head transplant doable, medicine could more easily solve the many problems motivating the need for said transplant in the first place.
no its not, by that logic when person gets quadriplegic because of injury then they loose brain capacity? are handicapped people stupid just because of their injury? the fact that someone researched something and got to a working hyopothesis does not mean its done and its truth.. its just a hyopothethesis. wait why are you watching brain transplant videos?
I'm glad Valeriy has a new wonderful life. It may not be the life he expected to have, but it sounds like it's better than he hoped for.
Stephen Hawking also was married, two times, and fathered three children with his first wife, despite his devastating disability due to ALS.
I have no doubt though that all of this came from the publicity from volunteering for the head transplant to begin with. I bet you any money that's what first intrigued his wife.
@@Xavier-sp5ec Dude she's got to be wealthy herself given her degree, not everyone is a gold digger that's rude to assume
When you described them “labeling” the nerves, muscle, and blood system, I can’t help but imagine them doing it like a car stereo using masking tape on each wire and a sharpie to label each connection 🤣
We all have been there
Yeah I was thinking of all those tags hanging off everything
As long as it's not done by a Network Technician :P Good luck debugging that rat's nest :D
There are about 650K +/- 100K nerve fibres coming out of the spinal chord (couldn't find the number in a single cross section). labelling could take a while
I pictured a nurse handing the dr those little strips of white tape with black numbers electricians use
The thought of transplanting the entire spine and brain sounds like the easiest method, while also still being an insane amount of work all the while the brain is probably dying.
The brain transplant reminds me of that one Cyanide and Happiness short with patients repeatedly riding a motorcycle off a hospital roof because the same brain is being transplanted to other patients
❤🍇🍒🍉🍓🍍🥭🍎🥝🥥🍏🍌🫐🍋Jesus loves you
Ommgg blast from the past
bummer..shoulda had a JET PAAAACK!!
@@ENDfalse-tineFrom the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@iwannabethekid34xc hatespeech reported
For anyone curious, UA-cam does indeed let people show the two headed dog in their videos. I've seen it posted here many times. Here's the rub: it will age restrict the video containing said two headed canine and probably not let you monetize it. "Old UA-cam" is still here, you just aren't gonna find that kind of content randomly anymore because it's all age restricted, which kills it in the algorithm, which is why this dude doesn't show it. Not a knock, most people these days making these slickly edited video essays aren't doing it purely out of passion lol. This is their job, or in some cases they're at least hoping to make it their job. Gotta pay for that production and pump that viewer count up! And I wouldn't have stumbled upon this video.
yep, a case of 'don't hate the player, hate the algorithm'
@@danyukhin Google before of removin the dont be evil motto was another beast.
The funniest thing to me is that UA-cam loves to restrict monetization, but there are still ads. The whole point of demonetization is to protect brands from being associated with "offensive" content, and yet, Google doesn't give a shi and I can guarantee you brands don't either. Children videos allowing ads is another hilarious way Google makes more money with a questionable decision. They pretend they care and so do brands, but deep down, Google is just trying to find ways to remove some income from creators and brands pretend they wouldn't want their ads on "offensive" videos (keep in mind that swearing can already make videos lose money, but you really think brands care? lmao it's just Google getting a. larger piece of the pie).
Nah, I actively prefer low production videos made with passion if it means people making "content" just to grab clicks and flood the Internet with diluted, poor information give up. Some good content might be sacrificed, but the overall landscape would be much more comfortable.
Also, it's not 2005 anymore, so even the lowest budget videos will look comparatively well-produced.
So you are telling me to go and find that double headed dogo 👍🏼
"Yeah, he dropped out of the surgery."
Good for Valery!!! That. Is. A. WIN!
I think marrying… that. That’s a much bigger W than staying in a paralyzed body. That being said, I get where he’s coming from.
Sure, but that won't advance the science required to save people in his condition (and many more others suffering with others) from their trapped lives. So... where's the win?
In the fact that you've successfully dehumanized the doctor because he's lacking ethics? Ethics based on what? The same ethics of millions of doctors who studied forbidden or macabre science at some point done by a person willing to push the boundary?
Boy... do i have some bad news for you... if you think ANY of the medical procedures in use today EVER started as clean procedures without a single ethical concern... or religious one.
None of them are clean, they've just been white washed by time and ignorance. Is the doctor the one who'd get this clicked in? More than likely not, but is your thinking Bull? Yup. Because you lack the context and only go by what you've been spoonfed.
Yeah, bro is clearly living his best life, and I'm totally rooting for him!
It feels silly to be just gaping and wondering how they did it, but I'd still love to know what makes this all workfor them on an extremely practical and more emotional/internal level. I'm facinated by how he met this seemingly amazing person and how this entire relationship was obviously worth it for both of them, even with the massive communication and disability barriers and the million general problems the world puts disabled people through. If they both co-wrote something about it, or were willing to allow a documentarian to watch a week in their lives, I bet we'd discover that they are very lucky, but also that they are just such particularly well-matched people, with a lot of insight about fielding and avoiding frustration and a deep common grounding. I think we'd all wish our romantic/sexual relationships - really all of our relationships - could be this flexible. While head transplants remain impossible, I think we'd all like to get as much out of both these people's brains as they are willing to show us.
@@myragroenewegen5426cant believe i read it all but well said
Ok, so first of all, I'm new to the channel, I like listening to you while working my shit corpo job.
And I was following this case since it was announced in 2015, cause its bonkers, but also because the Russian guy has the same illness that I do. I usually remember about it once a year and check what's up with it. So I was excited to see this vid, as I didn't follow up on this since a while now.
With that being said, I'd like to point out few things:
First of all, we no longer call SMA any different names than this, it's just Spinal Muscle Atrophy, but with different types. It's based on various studies, that revealed why it does look so different between people having it. I for example am 28yo and still walk pretty good, am selfsufficent and basically live almost-"normal" life with just few adjustments such as I will not go for a long hike in mountains and shit.
The differences in types come from the DNA structure and amount of copies of the gene that we are lacking (I'm oversimplifying this). At first, years ago, different doctors were coming across different types of SMA and didn't make connections between them, hence few different names for it, that were basically erased now (with rememberance of the doctors tho)
The amazing stop of regression of the SMA in our Russian dude was because of the first treatment that was intruduced to the marked. The first drug that came out is called Nusinercen, is pricey AF but stops the progression. Since then 2 other drugs came out and more are in various stages of development.
And lastly, I do not apprecieate the way you talked about him getting married to some hot chick. I get it was a joke, but it kinda sounded diminishing. We gotta stop thinking that severely disabled people are in a way not worthy of love. Sure, we can't be sure wheather this particular marriage is the result of true love or just mutual gains for both of them.
But it still doesn't sit right with me, that you've acted as if it was some bizzare case, one in a million.
It's like saying that a fat ugly guy cannot have a hot girl, that it's unnatural in some way or whatever, since it is just body shaming and kinda implying that fat people are worse, don't deserve love etc.
Same thing happened here.
And yea, I do get the joke, but mostly because I am tightly connected with the disabled and SMA community.
But imagine hearing this as a person who does not know a lot about health struggles. It's just feeding on the sitgma and hurful stereotypes.
Food for thought, I hope it'll shed a little more light on those issues. I just wish to see the world, where we treat all of ourselves with dignity and respect.
Talking about struggles of disabled community is important and valid.
And just as you said in some other vid of your in context of mental issues, we are living in times where the stigma is way smaller than ever; just don't forget about physical issues along the way.
In programming we call this a “two weeks project”
that cuts a little deep, but well played
what are you saying ? all programming projects are two weeks projects
@@monad_tcpthere's two weeks, and then there's two *weeks* but in this case, yeah: two weeks is about right. 🦼🛴👾👍☠️
“No worries, I’ll have that form written and usable by the end of the month”
“Four month progress update: more than 25% of the fields now save correctly 🎉”
LOL! So true! Somebody announces that we have one scrum cycle to code, test, and deploy a new SW target. And they have a Christmas list of impossible feature sets. "They" must have talked to Santa instead of the engineers because they say it can't be done. Plop this all on the Program Manager's desk and tell the Project Manager to buckle up. Everything that goes wrong will be their fault. Two weeks! LOL
Medlife Crisis is one of the most underrated channels on this platform. Glad to see him in this collab🙏🙏
I can understand some people getting squeamish on the subject, but it is certainly nothing to lose your head over.
people are going to lose their minds over this pun
Its certainly something you need to control, if you want to get ahead.
💀💀💀
Thank you for comforting me with your comments 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Just don't get too ahead of yourself
Liked specifically for the Eddie Izzard "Cake or death!" clip XD Additionally, I'd forgotten that he dropped out of the surgery. Thank you for touching back on this and ensuring that we received your information.
"The surgery is a success! He maintained a pulse without assistance for 37 minutes!"
Uh… well… thats… something…
Why does that remind me of starship blowing up
I saw "censored for UA-cam" and immediately jumped over to Nebula to watch the uncensored version. I sure didn't need that while eating dinner.
Most of them are on UA-cam already.
I want to watch it but I don't want to watch it. I wonder whether my curiosity will win out over my revulsion or the other way around.
@@jasonkinzie8835 I will say that it's not as gory as it could be. Horrific, yes. Gross, bloody, gory, not really.
I don't even wanna know.
Tired: passing on the Nebula uncensored version because you're queasy
Wired: passing because you can't afford paying for Nebula in this economy
Just a side note here, I am overjoyed that you chose to use footage from Young Frankenstein instead of any of the other actual Frankenstein flicks. Well done.
Thankyou! I was trying to find which movie that clip was from. Gene Wilder is so recognisable!
@@rendragyn Yep, you're welcome! RIP Gene Wilder.
Young Frankenstein IS an actual Frankenstein flick. It's THE Frankenstein flick.
@@yourhandlehere1 Amen, friend.
The only Frankenstein that treated his son right
I remember how there were news of a head transplant happening when I was in elementary school… incredible how the time flies by
I did a documentary of the first head transplant experiments in 1962 by Dr. White. His family gave me his original footage. I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. White on camera. The film DOES show graphic images of his experiments on monkies.
*monkeys
Where is this documentary?
@@ForageGardener where can we find this?
Please share the footage and the documentary! Ideally through a torrent!
@@ForageGardener dunno where you can watch it, but with what was described, it should be "A. Head B. Body"
They can't even fix the bulging disc in my back & they are seriously talking about head transplants? 😂
Sounds like you need a head transplant
Maybe Canavaro can help change your mind
How much money do you have?!
get a head transplant NOW
I'm happy to announce they actually have a fix for that. It's a very simple procedure where they directly infuse a large amount of cash directly into your spinal column.
Then with the leftover cash you can bail yourself out from having to work ever again and your herniated disk wouldn't matter anymore.
Oh what? You don't have the cash? Well that's unfortunate.
My brain has 2 cells left, and they're not in a committed relationship.
😂😂😂😂 you win the internet today
My one brain cell is widowed
I'm down to 1 and I'm not giving it up.
More like fighting for a third place
Same
15:44 Head cases, pun intended? 💀
As someone with some expertise in this area and having spoken to neuroscientists who very specifically specialize in the mechanics of spinal cord injury and repair - this is PURE FANTASY - and will almost certainly never be possible. The reason for this is extremely simple - well there's two parts to it. The first part is understanding that humans develop their nervous systems by functional connections in practice - not by design/plan. Nerves don't 'go to' particular parts of the body when they're growing - instead a crapton of nerves get sent out in that direction - and they're going to hit the required targets at the end - but you have no idea beforehand which nerves will get to which targets. The central nervous system then operates backwards it needs to achieve a function and it'll obviously match and pair with the nerves that achieve that functional outcome. All those other nerves and neurons that don't achieve function? They die off over time - when we talk about your brain 'maturing' over time this is mostly what's being referred to just more periphery - where an absolutely massive proportion of your neurons are pruned leaving you with just the stuff you're actively using. So now think about the spinal cord....
Imagine cutting into a big fat communications cable, with literally MILLIONS of individual fibreoptic lines in it... and you have NO IDEA which one is which, you might have a decent idea where roughly something will be but if it's not 1:1 it's a potential disaster, it wont work... if you were to slice that giant cable perfectly, and then move it apart like 1mm using precise machines, then try to move it back to re-create a connection.... chances are even then you'd not get it exactly right. Now imagine if instead of a consistent and fairly durable communications cable you were dealing with floopy floppy squishy flesh goo that has a tendency to recede, move, leak, or begin to die when cut.... okay that seems near impossible even when you begin with a perfectly connected spinal cord... but what if they were totally different... if there was no way to position it to match 1:1 even hypothetically with magic involved.
That's only one part though - what really takes it from 'inconceivable' to 'impossible' is the second part.... and that's material limits. To put it simply - our understanding of physics would have to be effectively completely wrong in order to allow for any material/tech that could bridge the gaps between neurons needing to be reconnected. It's the same issue that makes brain-machine-interfaces that can effectively restore function impossible. The required electrode density would have to break our understanding of chemistry completely in order to be possible. Neurons are not wires - they do not work in the same way wires do. Neurons don't have the same problems that wires do when it comes to interference or cross-talk, and the material requirements for what it takes to send particular levels of current and voltage would necessitate an amount of material that would make them functionally unusable due to scale.... and like... everything else... ahhh it's a bit big of a topic to summarize super concisely -.-... why do I do this 😆ah well just passionate about this stuff I guess and if you are too you've got enough so gonna go make food now lol
Wouldn’t that first part be cleared up with a better scanner? Better model maker. And I’m sure a machine could quickly and efficiently (eventually) be created to help with this.
As for the second part. Seems like we need to invent a new type of human wire. Or be allowed to play around with nerve stem cells. And then those could be used instead of our inefficient wires
Lol at least that’s my interpretation with no real biological background lol
Never say never🔪
Why are you absolutely sure that the brain couldn't rewire itself and figure out what all those new neural connections do? Sure, it's probably doomed to immediately self destruct as it's unable to control lungs,heart, digestive system, but fundamentally, the process is absolutely there, as we've all done it whilst being fetuses. Your point one is really more of not in our lifetime rather than never.
Point two is much better
I think you didn't get it, we need an artificial biological neck adapter in order to rewire the "pins" in the body to the correct dimensions of the brain and to put electrodes to allow controlling the body to keep it alive with the adapter, then we need an ion beam cutter to cut ATOMICALLY FLAT both the adapter's end and the head and then join them in a xenon atmosphere. Growing the neck adapter isn't so hard, the hard part is to orient the right filament to the right wiring.
@@jaazz90 yes we are absolutely sure on this - neurons are not wires, they are functional - and those functions are spatial. It's possible due to proximity that a few could approximate a workable solution but that's maybe a few hundred out of tens of millions. The process of our development is not reversible or repeatable, you can't re-do it.
@@fss1704 oh no don’t worry, i definitely didn’t get it. And i understand (abstractly) how creating something the body can use efficiently and effectively and painlessly would be extremely difficult.
(I’m talking about the spinal cord to spinal cord here, not brain to spinal cord)
But back to my point, in reference to your “connecting the right filament to the right wiring”, that basically connecting part a with part a, yes? A very complicated map. I don’t think it sounds impossible for a machine/scanner/model to identify linking nerves and then connect them.
Im thinking like how all roads look the same and meander wherever, but they all have an individual name or identifiers. Even if the road was cut with an earthquake or even teleported somewhere else a machine or person could still technically find out where it originated from (their are people who can look at an image of a road and tell you exactly where in the world it’s located)
So a machine might (in the future) be able identify which nerve road goes to which nerve road.
Now i don’t know if a machine would be able to identify everything fast enough before everything below the severing dies, especially with the way op describe nerves as rooting out and finding a place rather thanfollowing a preset architectural roadmap but ya never know
If my head was transplanted on another body, I would totally introduce myself as the person whose body I have and tell everybody they switched this smart head on me.
I'd do the same, but say they gave me this dumb one...
@@TheSpoilerist
That's likely for the best.
Insulting your life saving donor is a bit beyond my personal taste, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Me too in the Simonverse
Just pretend you actually are STILL the other guy.... trip up neuroscientists for a while, saying that you've got the memories of the new head, but you KNOW you are the original person. What could they do to prove you wrong?
"...smart head.."? How would you know the body didn't have a smarter head than yours?
"Would you mind telling me who's brain I DID use?"
"Abby.... Someone.."
Hahahahaha Abby-Normal!
YESSSSS!
"What hump?"
Good one 🧠
Lol! Young Frankenstein!
at least Abby was normal 😊, although normal is subjective
This is really well researched! I am amazed at how well you tackled a very confronting and distubing topic.
Honestly the biggest problem isn’t the spinal cord issue - it would be rejection by the host’s immune system. You can easily die from just a mis-matched kidney transplant. There is no way a complex tissue system like an entire head could be stabilized and the immune system arrested enough to allow the organism to continue living. There are just too many cellular responses systems involved and rejection would be inevitable.
Doesn't brain have an entirely separate immune system due to the blood-brain barrier?
mental image of the head being ejected off the body like a cork
@@rickd650 lol
We have plenty of immunosuppressant drugs that could do the job these days.
You'd probably have to nuke the bodys immune system and then repopulate it with the heads original bodys
15:39 “Canavero and all the other head cases” - subtle and sly so I love it!
This was my favorite 😂
Transplants such as these, combined with the recent eye transplant on a blind man could completely change millions of people's lives. (Until corruption and greed kick in and make it inaccessible for those who truly need it, of course.)
exactly
Imagine a future buisness where the poor can eat healthy and work out to sell their body to the rich to feed their family for a few years
Oh boy, you're gonna flip out when you hear about the American Healthcare System
@sweet999dark In Warhammer 40,000, the counter-faction with the human race are not the alien species but the antihuman faction specifically engineered to bring dark energy to overwhelm the material world.
I am one of those antihuman proponents, I want the poor people to eat each other via Soylent Green-equivalents while they are being used via manipulation (subliminal messaging, propaganda, mass media, dis/misinformation campaigns etc.) to induce hatred against each other so that their control over natural, human and/or mental resources the rich people so coveted gets coveted.
Once I learnt the meta of life, the only way to win the game of life, is not to participate in it.
Even without corruption and greed, the trillions of dollars for that have to come from somewhere.
I can't imagine how insane the immunal rejection would be. At this point, won't the head be the foreign object?
I find things like this surgery so funny. As a microbiologist I see this as a novelty with no practical use in the future. By the time the technology exists to perform this surgery, there will likely be methods to treat all or most of the ailments that this surgery would be used to treat, and it would be done without the extremely unnecessary risk.
Anything we should keep our eye on ??
Fight fight fight!!!!
@@logank444 ?
@@nicodesmidt4034 mostly genetic treatments and synthetic biology to create novel methods for medication delivery/precision delivery.
Uuuuuh. You do realize that all this stuff is almost possible. Nerve reconnection is a thing. It would just need to be done on a bigger scale. Maybe use automated microsurgery to reconnect the individual spinal nerve bundles.
Meanwhile to actually have brain uploads and in vivo genetic editing which would be needed for a lot of these conditions, that would be still decades away.
I'm relieved to know that Valery dropped out because his condition stabilized and that he found love. I was following this somewhat closely years back and the narrative seemed to be that medical professionals got to him and explained that: if he goes through with it, there's a potential for him to go completely insane and how it was going a fate worse than death lol... Also, I remember cavanero talking about this. He said something like, it's feasible to reduce the spinal cord in a way that it would be less work to reattach it but still maintain its functionality... The whole thing is just bonkers. This was such a cool video, I really enjoyed your insight into this because I was kinda wondering how all this panned out. It's been crickets for quite a few years.
12:14 'HEAVEN protocol' I thought it was called that because it would take you there if you volunteered💀
Holy shit, I just realized why the anime is called heavenly delusion... the main protagonist goes through something like this.
@@PrimeCo129that’s a crazy connection if so lol
I love how you shot your Factor ad! Brilliant! It genuinely felt like chatting with a friend ❤
It's so refreshing that you don't speak non-stop but with meaningful pauses. Nice presentation style.
He does speak very naturally and relaxed, it’s nice
Joe's great. Love his vids. And he's funny, too. "Tangent cam", and "Counter-point Joe" are great!
Yes! Too many UA-camrs just flood you with information by talking fast and moving through their points without hesitation. It's beyond refreshing to watch a video where the presenter knows how to... present.
Trying to be funny is not meaningful.
@@yves3560 True. But being naturally funny is meaningful.
There are worse things than death. Imagine surviving in Horror for 8 minutes post surgery ...
If you live in a country that makes euthanasia legal, then I think that you should be able to apply for this procedure. Everything was scary and "impossible" the first few times it was done. Even if you don't survive, you'll know that you are improving medical research. (And if you're a Vegan, imagine all the mice, rats, and monkey's lives you will save!)
There are worse things than death.
Imagine living in agony your whole life, only to have others so proudly claim that they know what is ethical, they know what is good for you and so you must suffer.
@@sujimayne Implying he's not in agony living in a wheelchair with his body wasting away?
@@jazzabighits4473 Imagine nerves wrongly attached, the pain would be excruciating. If you can push a button to self-kill yourself on a wrong surgery situation, all fine!
@@YochevedDesigns In Canada half the people who opt for MAID do so because they get no housing supports. They would need even more support after the "successful" head transplant.
Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster. I loved that you showed that part.
Maybe he really was the true monster
But does the monster take the surname of his "father"? Because that would mean that his name is Adam Frankenstein.
“Frankenstein is the monster” > “Frankenstein is the doctor” > “Frankenstein is the monster”
@@dunkleosteusterrelli Dr.Frankenstein is a monster but not THE monster he made in the book.
It's called FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER...
I don’t understand why we would ever consider before a successful animal experiment has been conducted
I fall asleep to Joe Scott. Please believe me when I say this is the highest compliment I could give a UA-camr. A voice that cradles me to sleep is like a warm blanket.
I don't see this UA-camr working for my sleep needs. I like Bedtime Stories and Disturban History. I guess I have a thing for British voices, and disturbing, violent true crime/ mystery type stuff.
Jose Scott's voice is the drug equivalent of heroin, but with all the benefits and none of the draw backs.
@@scottmichael1493 I don't think you've ever tried heroin.
This is fascinating. You did a great job of pulling out the logic from fantasy. I have had nerve ablation surgery to help with pain from late stage Lyme Disease. The amount medicine DOESN'T know about nerves was unsettling. "The nerves will find each other again somewhere between 3 months and 3 years from now. We don't like to sever the nerves from their source completely because they have a tendency to 'find' the wrong loose ends." This was at Stanford. My nerves found each other and got back to creating pain within 6 weeks. I declined further treatments.
You are so right about the monkey who was claimed to have had a severed spinal cord repaired. I call bs. Yesterday, I was having a debate with a stranger online (as you do). This person was insisting that I treat my dog's renal failure with crushed pineapple instead of the medication from his vet. "Pineapple gets humans off dialysis!" Well, what are you doing online talking to me? Get on the horn with The Cleveland Clinic and put out the word that the kidney transplant list can be tossed in the trash! (eyeroll)
I have nerve ablation on 4 nerves on each side of my lower spine every 3 months. That's approximately how long they take to reconnect, though sometimes it happens slightly sooner. This is the latest in pain management attempts that started after my back surgery that put a cage in. Started with trigger point Injections , then stronger guided Injections at 4 points on each side, and now the ablations. I don't know what the next treatment will be when these cease to work but for now, along with pain meds, these at least provide some relief. There's definitely not enough known about the science of nerves.
Just imagine a head being kept alive, but in terrible pain!
Why don’t they just give you copious amounts of opioids?
@@Sniperboy5551 they do but they barely make a dent in the pain. Don’t know why they don’t work enough for me but they don’t.
@@Sniperboy5551 Opiates only help with short-term pain. When used over long periods, they actually increase the body's sensitivity to pain because the body compensates for the dulled signaling. It also usually causes addiction and gastrointestinal issues when used long-term.
There's a reason there has been an opiate crises in the US -- opiates being used for long term pain treatment was a disaster and didn't even help with chronic pain for most people.
So opiates are best for recovering from surgery or acute injury. It's a good thing that we're developing new technologies for chronic pain
I will tell you that every time I'm in a major incident and I need stitches or Staples I request super glue. I do this because when I was 16 and I had stitches it's scarred really bad and I got violently ill after the stitches were removed. I was in a major accident about 2 years ago and I had a head contusion so I requested super glue. The doctor looked at me funny and I asked him what super glue was made for. I then asked him if he had medical grade super glue which he replied yes I do. He told me it was going to hurt and I told him I would rather a little pain now than a scar later. That contusion was bigger than the first one when I was 16 but you can feel the stitched contusion that was smaller and you can't even see or feel the spot where he super glued. The hair even grew back. My point is that cyanoacrylate is some amazing s***.
Think it’s just your body & the way of heeling, maybe also 16 year old you took less care of the wounds in your daily life, knocking it or picking it or even scratching… I have a cut on my leg that was glued back & it’s from about 12 years old & it’s still a bump & visible.
As a 39yo who had abdominal surgery for the 3rd time and got a horrible infection in the stitches... I wish they'd glued me too. (They were dissolving stitches. I cut them, which solved the issue, because I could clean them properly then.)
I think im in the same boat, i have a scar on my finger from what was probably a five stitch cut. Its a pretty gnarly scar. I have no scar on my groin from an abdominal surgery i had, which they glued.
Ill how? And why
@@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq if you're asking me how and why this works I can explain it in basic terms. When you add the super glue to the wound it actually sterilizes the wound. When you add stitches or Staples to close a wound you're actually adding more holes and damage to the skin. You're also bunching the skin in an unnatural way in certain locations giving you the ridges of your scar line. With super glue you have full contact along the whole wound so the skin is allowed to stretch naturally. It burns like hell because cyanoacrylate does not feel good when you put it in a wound but I have a super high pain tolerance. I would prefer a few moments of pain then I would have to come and get my stitches or Staples taken out. Also when they remove the Staples or stitches they're actually causing stress to that wound. When you remove those sutures your wound relaxes causing great deals of stress on the skin and your mental status. Depending on where the wound is you may even start to feel nauseous after stitches or Staples have been removed. For minor cuts or pretty deep abrasions that are clean and no skin is missing I choose super glue. Make sure that you're not using basic super glue unless it's for a small cut. There's actually a medical version that is more sterile.
10:15 Anastasia with the life insurance policy💪🏾😂
“MY NAME IS FRANEKENSTEIN” made me bust out laughing. I must have seen that movie uncountable times cuz my first husband was obsessed with it and movies with that type of humor.
Abi-Normal
Frankenstein was actually the doctor, not the guy that was assembled from leftovers.
Uncountable times lmao oh lord
my ex wife hates her 1st husband, Thought the guy was alright myself !
In a very German voice! 😂
Greetings!
Brain transplant is old news. It was first performed by an American surgeon in 1968. I saw in a documentary called StarTrek.
Live long and prosper
Brain and brain! What is brain?! 🖖
When Joe said that this is almost been a decade and I remember it like it was like three years ago my heart sank. I am old.
My brother was paralyzed during surgery, T5 paraplegic, nothing below the chest. That spinal glue idea would have changed my entire life.
I have an "unusual" perspective on this because I've attended a surgical neuroseparation (beheading).
I'm involved in cryonics, and once had an opportunity to assist (in a peripheral capacity) in the initial steps of a cryosuspension. The patient was a neuro (head only), so after the initial washout and cooling, where the patient is put in an ice bath and attached to a heart lung machine which is used to replace most of the blood with the initial cryoprotectants, it was time for, well, the beheading.
I'm very aware of the common perception of cryonics, but having looked deeply into it, followed the research for decades, and gotten to know many of the key people involved, I'm an unflinching supporter. But even in the context of seeing it as a potentially lifesaving technology, the actual vertebrae separation was hard to watch. Heads aren't designed to come off, and it is NOT like in samurai movies! I'm proud to have been involved in a small way in giving this stranger a chance of living in the future, but if I ever meet him there he owes me a beer.
I know that most people think that cryonicists are kooky, but while cryonics is speculative, but it makes sense if you accept the possibility/likelihood of the technology required to repair and receive cryonauts (yes, that's the term) being developed in the reasonable future. However, these people are claiming to be able to transplant heads TODAY, and that's provably bat shit crazy!
It's not any more batshit crazy than freezing a dead body or head and hoping that some magic tech in the future will bring them back to life.
With A.I. that might be happening sooner than later
@@davekelly1719 You're overestimating what Ai is at this point.
We are not meaningfully closer to the Singularity now that we were 5-10 years ago.
ChatGPT and what-not are powerful and impressive tools, but they are not intelligent.
We don't need to be able to transplant heads onto spare bodies. We just need to build robotic bodies that can support and be controlled by a disembodied brain. There's no risk of transplant rejection, no need for donor bodies, and no risk of a donor body turning out to have undiagnosed health issues like a ticking time bomb for the recipient. The only thing a robotic body probably wouldn't be able to do is make babies, and when you're giving people functional immortality you don't want to give them the ability to make babies as well anyway.
Was the patient still mentally alive?
I remember the face transplant. I am a emergency medical person, I had a nightmare that I had a scene where I had a decapitation that I was desperate to save. I woke up so confused and questioning everything I know.
This is crazy to think someone is looking to do this with any urgency.
“I ain’t got nobody….”
That's no way to get a head!
We know who "donated" the head. But who wants to "donate" the body.
Igor!
"Abby ... something ..."
Yakataka yakata tah tah
If anyone wants to skip dog stuff go to 6:50
Pro tip- if you include a notice to skip ahead to avoid a topic include a time stamp to when they can safely skip to to avoid the topic but not skip anything else.
It came up several times, with various animals. He honestly should have just advised to find a different video to watch.
@@robochelle I don't mean to be disrespectful, and I recognize this is totally subjective... but I'm a bit confused. So you're willing to click on a video about Human Head Transplants... arguably a more disturbing and morbid topic, but you draw the line with animals? To re-iterate... I mean no disrespect, just genuinely curious about this perspective.
@cmdrdyland that's a bot. That comment it just so stupid that is incomprehensible in every way possible.
@@gusvega4372 Not so sure if it's a bot, since the channel has personal videos on it... In hindsight, such morbid topics surrounding any kind of living being surely would garner a negative reaction, and I can understand why somebody would not want to hear or see about it... I was just curious about the original incentive for clicking on this video in the first place. I'm making a bit of an assumption, but wouldn't you wanna avoid Human Head Transplants too?
I'm probably putting way too much thought into this... To each their own.
@cmdrdyland even if it's not a bot, I found the comment too incomprehensible. How can a channel advertise other videos when the title itself is self explanatory.
Either way, it's a very unsettling topic. Head/body transplants just sound too dystopian.
The engineer with the beautiful wife made me smile. I'm glad he chose her instead of being an experiment.
Same here, I’m very happy for him. I hope he gets to live a long and happy and comfortable life.
Dude must have an absolutely amazing personality. Good job, man.
Not that being an experiment of this caliber isnt noble, its just that now that his life seems to go well then why risk it. I personally think giving your body to science is some of the most noble thing you can do for humanity.
@@BeyondAldebaranthat’s generally what women like in a husband plus are you saying he’s not attractive because he’s in a wheelchair??
@@sionandjess Yes and ya'll don't even know what you want for supper. How you gonna tell me what kind of man women want?
The dog experiment is so hard to see and I am glad it was censored. I saw the dog experiments years ago and it broke my heart to see the animals in that way. I know science comes first over ethics for some but I am very sensitive to animal cruelty or maltreatment. Thank you very much!!
Yeah I went to Latvia and they had the dogs on display in a medicine museum and that was the only time I ever felt uncomfortable about something... that was really disturbing
I have serious ethical issues with this kind of experiment. I had a hard time putting my dog through surgery to have an eye removed because it was already blind and had glaucoma. The thought of how she must’ve felt afterward really unsettled me, and that was a medically beneficial surgery! These experiments though, how are they not considered animal cruelty? I also question the ethics of a head transplant in general. There’s so much we don’t know about how the brain interacts with the body, so how can we justify putting even a willing human through that? As one of the interviewees said, “there are things worse than death.” The thought makes my skin crawl. I think maybe one day it could be ethically justified, but for now it seems like we know too little.
"science comes first over ethics" Nope nope nope nope.
@@spiritofhyrule8131 They are animal cruelty plain and simple. Scientists get away with it because most people don't give a shit. Same thing as factory farming.
This man tried his best to save your weak hearts from shedding tears. See joe Scott did you justice. Meanwhile all our demented twisted sadistic selves wanted to see all the pictures of 2 headed dogs
Thanks for making that video, I like the rhythm you have going on. We're not overwhelmed or rushed into facts or too much information. It was nice to listen to!
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn't the monster, wisdom is knowing that he was.
Idk, this is a good line in reference to this situation, but Frankenstein was more about the townspeople and how they were monsters
True, but it was also about the hubris and blind ambition of science and scientists. Frankenstein succeeded at being a scientist and then promptly failed at taking responsibility by abandoning the monster to his tragic fate.
@@mollydooker9636 I like to sum it up as: "Clever surgeon. Terrible father. Turns out both disciplines were equally important to what he was attempting."
True wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the doctor, and his creation didn't have a name other than "the monster".
Thats actualy a very smart way of saying that
Since his cousin Tom retired at the end of 2023, these Joe Scott videos are the only way that I get my "low-key, off-beat, but informative video" fix. Love your work! :)
they are cousins? I can't seem to find a verification anywhere
As someone who struggles and has occasionally joked about needing a new body this video is particularly horrifying and fascinating. I'm going to be more careful about that kind of joke as I now realize there's always the chance one of my doctors might take me to seriously.
A Doctor can bury his mistakes and a weatherman can be totally wrong for days but I know too many people that had bad outcomes from a hospital
Hippocrates is pounding on the stone tablet with The Oath in anger
Be strong MRBrew, tough it out. Keep watching videos that have some educational/entertainment value to keep the old head sharp, you only get one
Great comment and makes one ponder
Lived for 36 hours or took 36 hours of suffering while it was dying for those 36 hours?
Like MAID, people think doctor assisted suicide is compassionate, nothing could be further from the truth. Some take over 24 hours to die and during this time the person is literally drowning and because they are paralyzed they can not scream out or move their body. Its evil and sick.
5:42 22-headed dogs - now that’s something to see!
It’s 20, 2 headed dogs not a 22 headed dog. That would just be too cool. A whole pack on one body!!!
@@gordonwybo898 I prefer my version, better mental image!!!
Straight to jail for that one
It is messed up.
@@gordonwybo898although the idea brings to mind the legend of the ‘Cerberus’ that three headed dog of the underworld.
Imagine waking up and actually being a new person.
That's not what it would be like. "You" are your brain, your memories and personality are there. If your head ends up on a different body, you will still have all the same memories and personality, you will still be you, just with a different "life-support" system.
@@dougthompson1598 that's not what he meant. it's a joke of the saying waking up feeling like a new person. but i'll bite. you're far, far more than your brain - you are Serotonin, you are testosterone etc etc etc, it's a big part of how you will feel, part of the personality, mood etc. When depressed you can literally become another person just because there's a big lack of serotonin.. We can also basically just guess since it's not been done.
Your still the same person.
Venom Snake moment.
@@Vurt72but that's just part how "you feel". If that surgery would succeed it would mean you would got back proper Ballance of it... If not it would mean it was not succees and you probably won't live too long anyway.
I once wrote a sci-fi short story about a guy going through therapy, after getting his brain transplanted into the body of a clone. Because clones aren't actually exact copies, not only did he have to do physical therapy to recover from near-paralysis, he also had to mentally cope with living in what looked like someone else's body, despite it being genetically his. In the real world, I could see a lot of good coming from being able to do it, both for full brain swaps and regular spinal repair. But it feels like everyone who buys into it are all really sketchy. If there was more funding towards more respected mainstream research on it, I think it would be worthwhile.
That's Altered Carbon. Great book. Great first TV season.
I doesn't really effect the main character because he's a supersoldier trained for this. But other people go nuts
That's a really cool idea for a story.
I would transplant my brain at age 75 with no preexisting medical condition if it was a 95%+ survival rate. Thats still considered very dangerous but since quarentine im not depressed i just have kind of a death wish and also i want to be immortal do yeah. I think some shit like this, or synthetic bodies you upload into, will be a thinv in the future with the technological singularity coming. Im fully planning to be immortal but if i die in the process or its not quite me whatever it's good enough. Idrc were all one in the end i think
*Awkward silence* "...yeah he dropped out the surgery" sent me into uncontrollable laughter. Can't blame the man.
I literally spat out my drink at the Eddie Izzard jump
Mission accomplished
Hot russian physicist or decapitatjon??
@@katevgradycake please!!
10:40 bro, idk anyone who woulde chosen otherwise
Hey sir, I've been watching you for over 8 years across multiple forgotten accounts - the work you've put into spreading knowledge in a form that's easily palatable and absorbed is second to none. A lot of stuff I've gotten interested in has been because of a video you've released, and a lot of relationships I've formed have been because of knowledge gained and shared through you. I genuinely appreciate everything you've taught me over the years. I hope you're doing well over there, you cerebral architect.
“This is a picture of Anastasia. She married him…” **MASSIVE PAUSE** 😂💀
If you could do the microsurgery (or have the magic glue) necessary to attach a head and body, you could do the microsurgery (or have the magic glue) to repair a spinal cord. That would obviate a lot of cases where a "head transplant" would make "sense" (whatever "sense" could be made about this whole thing). But what about the other cases? Seems the rejection issues would be challenging or overwhelming.
imagine the body rejects the head and you start rotting alive, or the opposite.
@@nahoj.2569 Yeah, it is hard to even think about how that would go. Would the brain shuts down then the body just stops working or would the organs shut down then the brain stop functioning? Or both simultaneously? Which ever, it seems half of a body getting used to a different other half would be a lot to ask biochemically.
"Two headed dog, two headed dog, I was working in the Kremlin with a two headed dog" -Vladimir Demikhov (or Roky Erikson probably)
Love Roky Erickson, RIP to a legend.
wasn't expecting some niche shit in this comment section lol. great song
❤
10:07 "... ....and she also has a Master's in Chemical Engineering".
...My friend you have MASTERED the art of the comedic pause!
Roky sure has a niche in my heart.
Wow super happy for the dude who was originally gonna get the head snip! Glad he found love :)
There is so much more than just the logistics of how to do it here. How would it be decided if the body is split up as a donor to several people needing organs, or one person needing a body? And it’s difficult enough for families to donate the organs of their braindead relatives, can you imagine anyone agreeing to doctors cutting off their relative’s head to be discarded while someone gets to walk around in the body??? I agree that it would be an amazing feat to be able to do this, but i don’t think society would use the technique for several generations.