What Happened To The First Human Head Transplant? (Feat. Medlife Crisis)
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In 2015, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced that he intended to perform a human head transplant within a few years, and even more shockingly, he had a volunteer for the almost guaranteed-to-be-lethal procedure: a Russian man named Valery Spiridonov. What happened to this crazy plan? And what would it actually take to perform a human head transplant?
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I was against getting a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.
@joescott
17 күн бұрын
I see what you did there...
@turezak
17 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@entropytheory8875
17 күн бұрын
Boooooo lol 😂
@IronicleseAndSardoniclese
17 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@NekoNebula1313
17 күн бұрын
Too good ! Lol
imagine brain transplants though, one second youre flying through your windshield, the next youre waking up in a body that just isnt yours.
@Shinobubu
17 күн бұрын
And a medical bill from the 200 surgeons that operated on you.
@Sniperboy5551
17 күн бұрын
@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…
@kevinnguyen9138
17 күн бұрын
Yeah waking up in a body that isn't yours but you also can't move a thing! 😩
@-biki-
17 күн бұрын
whose insurance policy would it apply to? 😮 (doesn't matter, they'd deny coverage regardless)
@MrInvinciblewarrior
17 күн бұрын
Who would donate their body? Imagine you wake up in a body of a serial killer
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
@SarahUsrey
8 күн бұрын
❤🍇🍒🍉🍓🍍🥭🍎🥝🥥🍏🍌🫐🍋Jesus loves you
@ENDfalse-tine
3 күн бұрын
Ommgg blast from the past
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.
@bingus549
3 күн бұрын
i hope youre happy
@NN-sp9tu
3 күн бұрын
“There are plenty of disabled folks with hot spouses” was so out of left field lmao
My wife heard 22- headed dog, and I had to explain it was actually 20 2- headed dogs.....she was still horrified.
@LawTaranis
16 күн бұрын
Well that's even more heads, so she should be MORE horrified!
@JamesCavender-me6ei
15 күн бұрын
Animal experiments don't bother me at all, forward progress in the name of science.
@Broockle
15 күн бұрын
@@JamesCavender-me6ei it's ok to bother you less, but "not at all" is taking it too far. Empathy good. Sacrifice wisely.
@Reticulating-Splines
15 күн бұрын
@@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.
@EternalResonance
15 күн бұрын
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!!!!
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.
@MeganVictoriaKearns
17 күн бұрын
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!
@joescott
17 күн бұрын
Yeah thanks for sharing. I wouldn’t blame anyone for being desperate for a solution in that situation.
@BlackOpMercyGaming
17 күн бұрын
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
@douglasbillington8521
17 күн бұрын
Not enough good people like you in this world.
@babd3121
17 күн бұрын
please look into L-arginine and als, It slowed and in some cases reverses als ITS A cheap supplement available literally everywhere.
They can't even fix the bulging disc in my back & they are seriously talking about head transplants? 😂
@Spala1
3 күн бұрын
Sounds like you need a head transplant
@gr8potatosaurusofthunderfart
3 күн бұрын
Maybe Canavaro can help change your mind
@VitaminCBable
2 күн бұрын
How much money do you have?!
@i.c.wiener2750
2 күн бұрын
get a head transplant NOW
@iankmak
19 сағат бұрын
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.
For anyone curious, KZread 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 KZread" 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.
@danyukhin
2 күн бұрын
yep, a case of 'don't hate the player, hate the algorithm'
@LtCommanderTato
Күн бұрын
@@danyukhin Google before of removin the dont be evil motto was another beast.
@raul5081
Күн бұрын
The funniest thing to me is that KZread 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).
I just watched watched a video about consciousness in decapitated heads, and the algorithm sent me here 54 seconds after upload.
@DragonKingGaav
17 күн бұрын
Same here!
@1TakoyakiStore
17 күн бұрын
One of Simmon Whistler's channels?
@ronaldmartin2666
17 күн бұрын
I thought of Joe immediately upon seeing Simon’s video😂
@legalblondie3
17 күн бұрын
Joe did a video on the same subject years ago.
@Reach41
17 күн бұрын
Don't pay too much attention to the predictions on post decapitation consciousness.
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!
@YodiJohsonna
13 күн бұрын
Do you guys in the medical field look into dmso for the spinal cord?
@xblackdogrunsx
13 күн бұрын
I saw a video recently where they regrew a person's optic nerve and replaced the eye using stem cells. The future is here.
@kylahogan5913
13 күн бұрын
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…
@stitchgor3
12 күн бұрын
@@xblackdogrunsxlink?:0
@TexasbyStorm
12 күн бұрын
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.
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!!
@Liradu2
11 күн бұрын
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
@spiritofhyrule8131
11 күн бұрын
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.
@samuelterry6354
9 күн бұрын
"science comes first over ethics" Nope nope nope nope.
@B-fq7ff
6 күн бұрын
@@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.
@justaspy5605
6 күн бұрын
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
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.
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.
@scottsluggosrule4670
17 күн бұрын
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.
@Salsuero
17 күн бұрын
@@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.
@scrung
17 күн бұрын
armchair scientists on the youtube comment sections after 12 years of rigorous experimentation and research be like
@francinejones2524
17 күн бұрын
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.
@SarahJSwift
17 күн бұрын
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.
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.
@wildflower1397
11 күн бұрын
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.
@andrewsimpkins3359
11 күн бұрын
Yep, the arms will just reach up and RIP it right off!
@stagewrong6492
10 күн бұрын
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.
@MrTigerlore
10 күн бұрын
@@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.
@plinyvicgames
7 күн бұрын
@@stagewrong6492I imagine it could be helped with exercise and physical therapy. gradually getting used to the body through relearning movement might do some good
Wow super happy for the dude who was originally gonna get the head snip! Glad he found love :)
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!
@intiorozco5063
5 күн бұрын
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.
@davekelly1719
3 күн бұрын
With A.I. that might be happening sooner than later
@MartinFinnerup
Күн бұрын
@@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.
@tealkerberus748
14 сағат бұрын
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.
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.
@nexaentertainment2764
13 күн бұрын
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.
@JerzeyGEMS
13 күн бұрын
Ummm seems like we are already talking about head transplants 🤔
@km077
12 күн бұрын
@@JerzeyGEMS Can't have a cake without knowing how to make a cupcake/having flour.
@jessicaolson490
12 күн бұрын
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... 😳
@nurseelliott4256
12 күн бұрын
That’s what I was going
My brain has 2 cells left, and they're not in a committed relationship.
@eveofgenesis
12 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂 you win the internet today
@yelhsasokolova8561
12 күн бұрын
My one brain cell is widowed
@ZepG
6 күн бұрын
I'm down to 1 and I'm not giving it up.
@aiwarask596
3 күн бұрын
More like fighting for a third place
We can't even repair a severed spine, and people thought a head transplant was possible.
@matyi1656
Сағат бұрын
Idk about the medical stuff, but changing stuff is easier than repairing them, I suppose it is the same with body parts
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.
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 🤣
@matheussanthiago9685
16 күн бұрын
We all have been there
@rickd650
16 күн бұрын
Yeah I was thinking of all those tags hanging off everything
@thhseeking
16 күн бұрын
As long as it's not done by a Network Technician :P Good luck debugging that rat's nest :D
@Mandanara
16 күн бұрын
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
@rickedstyles1
15 күн бұрын
I pictured a nurse handing the dr those little strips of white tape with black numbers electricians use
"Would you mind telling me who's brain I DID use?" "Abby.... Someone.."
@francinejones2524
17 күн бұрын
Hahahahaha Abby-Normal!
@TheCrabbyCrafterlol
16 күн бұрын
YESSSSS! "What hump?"
@anitarichmond8930
16 күн бұрын
Good one 🧠
@patriciaroysdon9540
16 күн бұрын
Lol! Young Frankenstein!
@royg2840
16 күн бұрын
at least Abby was normal 😊, although normal is subjective
10:45 Eddie Izard’s stand up special was one of the funniest acts I’VE EVER SEEN! “Do you have a flag?” 😂😂😂😂😂
@motherofpoms
5 күн бұрын
But do you? 👀 no flag no country!
@jeremytenorio3099
4 күн бұрын
But sir, they've got a flag.
The risk is unbelievable, I would not have one unless I'm on deaths door
I'm so glad he decided to tell people to skip forward rather than not talking about it at all
"Yeah, he dropped out of the surgery." Good for Valery!!! That. Is. A. WIN!
@Sniperboy5551
17 күн бұрын
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.
@aserta
17 күн бұрын
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.
@ndawn90
17 күн бұрын
Yeah, bro is clearly living his best life, and I'm totally rooting for him!
@myragroenewegen5426
17 күн бұрын
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.
@Bill23231
17 күн бұрын
@@myragroenewegen5426cant believe i read it all but well said
Thanks for this video! I did a project on it back in 2015 and haven't heard anything more from it since, this was awesome to hear what happened since and where things kind of are. Great job, and super well done!
Reconnecting a spinal cord to its own severed mate is one thing. Connecting it to one that grew in another body is utterly unlikely ever to work. Not only will two spinal cords never actually be quite the same diameter, but the fibers within them, which each carry one endpoint's signal to the appropriate part of the brain, will never be arranged quite the same. The spine is massively parallel. It's not a single wire that carries a lot of signals sequentially. Every parallel signal needs to go to the right place in the brain. It'd be like connecting HDMI and DisplayPort, where you need an adapter that correctly attaches all of the randomly arranged lines from each end.
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
@yah_boy_fat_gabe8094
7 күн бұрын
This is so fucking cool
@kryptedknight7304
4 күн бұрын
Big if true
@trishoconnor2169
4 күн бұрын
So what was your plan if he said yes?
@drucshlook
4 күн бұрын
@@trishoconnor2169 changing the wheels
@htx_713
3 күн бұрын
But how did he sign it tho?
Great chatting to you via the medium of KZread Studio! 😅 We should get our heads together more often…
@daisiesonme1
17 күн бұрын
You really should, you make a great team!
@Mandy87Marie
17 күн бұрын
Heads together hehe!
@pbsamanthamarie
16 күн бұрын
But don't lose your mind over it.
@takumi2023
16 күн бұрын
i like your clean shaven face better. your facial hair has really grown in.
@ZsoltBottka
16 күн бұрын
That would be a banger :)
Being able to fix spinal cords alone would be monumental.
I appreciate SO much how you put the sponsor at the end. RESPECT
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
@DatsWhatHeSaid
17 күн бұрын
Wow! Very happy for you, hope the procedure helps a ton of other people, thanks to you, too!
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?
@PiratesInTeepees
17 күн бұрын
i was thinking the same thing, my best guess would be someone with brain damage on life support.
@TayWoode
17 күн бұрын
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
@RobinTheBot
17 күн бұрын
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.
@Nik-ei9st
17 күн бұрын
People with mental health issues, suicidal…. But those are entirely different moral issues
@JesmondBeeBee
17 күн бұрын
@@RobinTheBot There's a reason emergency room doctors call motorbikes "donorcycles."
THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to follow this for years but have been lacking. Thank you!
I had been wondering this exact same thing one and off the past year or two. Now I know, thank you.
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
@angrybidoof847
9 күн бұрын
If it actually worked, it reduce the need for head transplants too
In programming we call this a “two weeks project”
@renchesandsords
17 күн бұрын
that cuts a little deep, but well played
@monad_tcp
17 күн бұрын
what are you saying ? all programming projects are two weeks projects
@vapormissile
17 күн бұрын
@@monad_tcpthere's two weeks, and then there's two *weeks* but in this case, yeah: two weeks is about right. 🦼🛴👾👍☠️
@jonathanmsmith
17 күн бұрын
“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 🎉”
@Please_Dont_Call_It_Frisco
17 күн бұрын
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
Finally nice to see you again in my feed again!!
This was a very informative video and I really enjoy your sense of humor! 💐
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.
@karenk2409
13 күн бұрын
Stephen Hawking also was married, two times, and fathered three children with his first wife, despite his devastating disability due to ALS.
@Xavier-sp5ec
12 күн бұрын
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.
I saw "censored for KZread" and immediately jumped over to Nebula to watch the uncensored version. I sure didn't need that while eating dinner.
@DanteS-119
17 күн бұрын
I’m getting queasy even without all of those details
@nickc247
16 күн бұрын
Most of them are on KZread already.
@jasonkinzie8835
16 күн бұрын
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.
@davebenhart4611
16 күн бұрын
@@jasonkinzie8835 I will say that it's not as gory as it could be. Horrific, yes. Gross, bloody, gory, not really.
@DJSockmonkeyMusic
16 күн бұрын
I don't even wanna know.
Thanks for posting
That’s so weird! I wondered about this for the past 2 or 3 days! Thanks!
“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.
@Wokculture69
15 күн бұрын
Abi-Normal
@robpolaris5002
13 күн бұрын
Frankenstein was actually the doctor, not the guy that was assembled from leftovers.
@XRROW_
13 күн бұрын
Uncountable times lmao oh lord
@danielhall-wl4ql
13 күн бұрын
my ex wife hates her 1st husband, Thought the guy was alright myself !
@PCLHH
12 күн бұрын
In a very German voice! 😂
I can understand some people getting squeamish on the subject, but it is certainly nothing to lose your head over.
@shhinysilver1720
12 күн бұрын
people are going to lose their minds over this pun
@elLooto
11 күн бұрын
Its certainly something you need to control, if you want to get ahead.
@heavendoll4596
11 күн бұрын
💀💀💀
@lndsyg
9 күн бұрын
Thank you for comforting me with your comments 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@chaimgoldstein3386
8 күн бұрын
Just don't get too ahead of yourself
Best one in a long time! Bravo...
It's one thing to reconnect severed nerves in a complex pre-existing system. You are just reconnecting one part of a component to the other part of the same component. These parts have always existed together and have evolved working together to control the same system, so their functionality only depends on reconnecting the two ends so signals can pass through again. It's a completely different thing to take one part of one system and try to connect it to a completely different system, which has evolved completely separately, with a different control system (brain) and maybe completely different locations for all the connections. No two nervous systems are structurally the same at the cellular level, which is where the reconnection has to take place. The neural pathways from the brain to the muscle are completely different in each individual and the control strategies used by each brain to achieve the same outcomes are not only completely different in each individual but also continuously change over time. In the case of simply (relatively) reconnecting a severed spinal cord, you could reattach the larger structure with some kind of conductive medium at the join and it's possible that the appropriate nerve cells might reconnect because both ends of the same nerve would be reasonably close to each other in orientation. Sending signals down the nerve may reach the other appropriate end through the conductive medium and gradually the two ends might make a new connection. It's still rolling the dice, but if enough nerves make appropriate new connections, you might get some functionality back. The brain might also be able o work out new signal processes if nerves reconnect differently than before due to it's neuroplasticity, but I'm guessing there would need to be sufficient overlap of the two processes to salvage something. Obviously, we can't do that very successfully yet. Connecting a brain and spinal cord to a completely different nervous system would have to go through each axon and somehow identify which axon from the recipient spinal cord corresponded to an axon in the donor spinal cord, which may be located somewhere completely differently in the spinal cord or use a different combination of axons. There may not be a very good match between the nerve axons used for each task, their location or sensitivity to stimulus. Each spinal cord would have evolved separately with their own separate structures and processes for making things happen. It's a whole extra universe of complexity and the new brain would probably have to develop new control strategies for every single nerve in every single task, even if you were able to match up axons. It might be too different for the neuro-plasticity of a brain to adapt to. Soon, it may be easier to upload a humans brain patterns into a synthetic substitute - a synthetic brain and body.
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.
@ferretyluv
17 күн бұрын
*monkeys
@ForageGardener
17 күн бұрын
Where is this documentary?
@mytubechenzy
17 күн бұрын
@@ForageGardener where can we find this?
@Mbeluba
17 күн бұрын
Please share the footage and the documentary! Ideally through a torrent!
@radiantgale
17 күн бұрын
@@ForageGardener dunno where you can watch it, but with what was described, it should be "A. Head B. Body"
A perfect video to watch right before going to bed, in a hospital, a day before a head transplant operation.
@tracybeeeee
17 күн бұрын
You too? Wild.
@MeganVictoriaKearns
17 күн бұрын
On my 1st flight ever, from North Carolina to Cancun, the in-flight movie was "La Bamba". No joke. Swear.
@eveking6289
17 күн бұрын
Good luck ❤
@eveking6289
17 күн бұрын
@tracybeeeee good luck ❤
@WarFoxThunder
17 күн бұрын
WOAH
I wasn't going to bother trying the head transplant but then I realised I was alone... I had... No body
Joe 😂😂😂 the choir of you going “we knew” 🤣🤣🤣 gold ❤ love you lol
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.
@rendragyn
16 күн бұрын
Thankyou! I was trying to find which movie that clip was from. Gene Wilder is so recognisable!
@jrjubach
15 күн бұрын
@@rendragyn Yep, you're welcome! RIP Gene Wilder.
@yourhandlehere1
14 күн бұрын
Young Frankenstein IS an actual Frankenstein flick. It's THE Frankenstein flick.
@jrjubach
14 күн бұрын
@@yourhandlehere1 Amen, friend.
@angrybidoof847
9 күн бұрын
The only Frankenstein that treated his son right
There are worse things than death. Imagine surviving in Horror for 8 minutes post surgery ...
@YochevedDesigns
17 күн бұрын
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!)
@sujimayne
17 күн бұрын
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
17 күн бұрын
@@sujimayne Implying he's not in agony living in a wheelchair with his body wasting away?
@Heroselohim
17 күн бұрын
@@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!
@jamesphillips2285
16 күн бұрын
@@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.
This was really good. Thanks for the wonderful info with a good laugh
I was just talking to my fiancé the other day, wondering what happened with this whole situation. Thank you for the extremely informative video. ❤
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
17 күн бұрын
I'd do the same, but say they gave me this dumb one...
@UsenameTakenWasTaken
17 күн бұрын
@@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.
@Kahrahnus
17 күн бұрын
Me too in the Simonverse
@trybunt
17 күн бұрын
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?
@olliefoxx7165
17 күн бұрын
"...smart head.."? How would you know the body didn't have a smarter head than yours?
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.
@nicodesmidt4034
17 күн бұрын
Anything we should keep our eye on ??
@logank444
17 күн бұрын
Fight fight fight!!!!
@coltonhaynie6174
17 күн бұрын
@@logank444 ?
@coltonhaynie6174
17 күн бұрын
@@nicodesmidt4034 mostly genetic treatments and synthetic biology to create novel methods for medication delivery/precision delivery.
@nemo-x
17 күн бұрын
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.
Great video. 😊
Great content and presentation. Great channel. 🇦🇺 😊
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.
“I ain’t got nobody….”
@tenebrousoul9368
17 күн бұрын
That's no way to get a head!
@thijsjong
17 күн бұрын
We know who "donated" the head. But who wants to "donate" the body.
@darwinawardcommittee
17 күн бұрын
Igor!
@johnopalko5223
17 күн бұрын
"Abby ... something ..."
@fathersoftorque73
17 күн бұрын
Yakataka yakata tah tah
Thank you for the warning about expermients on animal. As someone who gets nightmares from that sort of things but loves your videos, thank you for taking the time to warn us! Greetings from Argentina
I can't be the only one who read the title and thought "I wonder how that guy did with his new body..."😂
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.)
@turezak
17 күн бұрын
exactly
@Consumpter
17 күн бұрын
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
@kayleighlehrman9566
17 күн бұрын
Oh boy, you're gonna flip out when you hear about the American Healthcare System
@FiredAndIced
17 күн бұрын
@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.
@desperadox7565
17 күн бұрын
Even without corruption and greed, the trillions of dollars for that have to come from somewhere.
15:39 “Canavero and all the other head cases” - subtle and sly so I love it!
Thank god he didn't go through with it 🙏🏻 so happy for him and his family. I really was dreading what had happened to him at the start of this video x
The use of Eddie Izzard's "Cake or Death" joke is pure comedic genius.
Medlife Crisis is one of the most underrated channels on this platform. Glad to see him in this collab🙏🙏
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.
@obongonigga
16 күн бұрын
Doesn't brain have an entirely separate immune system due to the blood-brain barrier?
@rickd650
16 күн бұрын
mental image of the head being ejected off the body like a cork
@SpydersByte
16 күн бұрын
@@rickd650 lol
@Sniperboy5551
16 күн бұрын
We have plenty of immunosuppressant drugs that could do the job these days.
@Blafaselblubb
16 күн бұрын
You'd probably have to nuke the bodys immune system and then repopulate it with the heads original bodys
My body really really really wants a different head. So I'm very much looking forward to the breakthrough in this.
Good to have you back on my feed ◼️
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***.
@crowe852
11 күн бұрын
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.
@meretriciousinsolent
6 күн бұрын
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.)
It’s definitely “body transplant.”
@MeganVictoriaKearns
17 күн бұрын
100%
@Sniperboy5551
17 күн бұрын
Or a “head/body transplant,” I guess.
@pr0x1madigital
17 күн бұрын
When undergo a heart transplant you basically throw away your heart and take someone elses heart. This is your replacing your body, so its a body transplant. Head transplant just makes it sound so sensational and I imagine news would prefer "Head Transplant" as headline for more impression.
@jtjames79
17 күн бұрын
Might not even have to fully solve the nerve problem. This is the next step for neuralink.
@TheLumberjack1987
17 күн бұрын
@@jtjames79 Nothing neuralink does is even remotely in that ballpark. The only one who claimed stuff like that is Musk, who knows literally nothing about anything other than pump and dumps and how to lie about products.
I feel like these sci-fi technologies that would need to be developed in order to successfully transplant a head would themselves solve most of the reasons anyone would _want_ a head transplant in the first place. Some kind of miracle nerve repairing technology would mean you could fix severed spinal columns, treat nerve-degenerating diseases, and transplant missing limbs or far better bionic prosthetics than we have today. Why transplant your head when you can much more easily repair your own body?
The cake or death insert killed me. Bravo.
5:42 22-headed dogs - now that’s something to see!
@gordonwybo898
17 күн бұрын
It’s 20, 2 headed dogs not a 22 headed dog. That would just be too cool. A whole pack on one body!!!
@Richardincancale
17 күн бұрын
@@gordonwybo898 I prefer my version, better mental image!!!
@dominiquedoeslife
17 күн бұрын
Straight to jail for that one
@oliverplougmand2275
16 күн бұрын
It is messed up.
@mikehorrocks2909
15 күн бұрын
@@gordonwybo898although the idea brings to mind the legend of the ‘Cerberus’ that three headed dog of the underworld.
The engineer with the beautiful wife made me smile. I'm glad he chose her instead of being an experiment.
@lindsayschmidt2177
15 күн бұрын
Same here, I’m very happy for him. I hope he gets to live a long and happy and comfortable life.
@BeyondAldebaran
15 күн бұрын
Dude must have an absolutely amazing personality. Good job, man.
@retchie7355
15 күн бұрын
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.
@sionandjess
15 күн бұрын
@@BeyondAldebaranthat’s generally what women like in a husband plus are you saying he’s not attractive because he’s in a wheelchair??
@SkinnyNinja420
15 күн бұрын
@@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?
As an IT professional, I can tell you this is insane. Not just the microsurgery and all that, each body defines its own neuro pathways to do everything. So, even if you make the biological parts work, the dude will likely go insane, as happened with face transplants. In other words, it's more like moving your Windows hard drive to new hardware than moving your Linux hard drive to new hardware. With Windows, the HW drivers and such specific to that system are in the OS. Linux is more general.
The "I can sum it up in three words" joke is fricking hilarious. That momentary pause just sells it so well.
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)
@anniereddj
17 күн бұрын
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.
@dshe8637
17 күн бұрын
Just imagine a head being kept alive, but in terrible pain!
@Sniperboy5551
17 күн бұрын
Why don’t they just give you copious amounts of opioids?
@anniereddj
17 күн бұрын
@@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.
@watsonwrote
17 күн бұрын
@@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
12:14 'HEAVEN protocol' I thought it was called that because it would take you there if you volunteered💀 Edit: holy cow 156 likes? Tysm!☆
@PrimeCo129
17 күн бұрын
Holy shit, I just realized why the anime is called heavenly delusion... the main protagonist goes through something like this.
@myrealusername2193
16 күн бұрын
@@PrimeCo129that’s a crazy connection if so lol
Absolutely loved the Eddie Izzard deep cut reference!! Cake or death?! Cake! Well we’re OUTTA CAKE! we didn’t expect such a rush!
This went right over my head
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.
@dddevildogg
17 күн бұрын
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
I fall asleep to Joe Scott. Please believe me when I say this is the highest compliment I could give a KZreadr. A voice that cradles me to sleep is like a warm blanket.
@abraxasjinx5207
17 күн бұрын
I don't see this KZreadr 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.
@scottmichael1493
16 күн бұрын
Jose Scott's voice is the drug equivalent of heroin, but with all the benefits and none of the draw backs.
@abraxasjinx5207
16 күн бұрын
@@scottmichael1493 I don't think you've ever tried heroin.
The study of connection of spinal cord repair is intense work. Most rich ppl just want results without research. I'm scared for this humanity
I've wondered about this from time to time
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn't the monster, wisdom is knowing that he was.
@TheSpaceOctopus
17 күн бұрын
Idk, this is a good line in reference to this situation, but Frankenstein was more about the townspeople and how they were monsters
@mollydooker9636
16 күн бұрын
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.
@05Matz
16 күн бұрын
@@mollydooker9636 I like to sum it up as: "Clever surgeon. Terrible father. Turns out both disciplines were equally important to what he was attempting."
@kelf114
16 күн бұрын
True wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the doctor, and his creation didn't have a name other than "the monster".
@cherrydragon3120
16 күн бұрын
Thats actualy a very smart way of saying that
I randomly think about this and wonder about it. Thanks for the update 😆
“Nopes itself.” Haha, I love it.
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
@Nik-ei9st
17 күн бұрын
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
@jaazz90
17 күн бұрын
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
@fss1704
16 күн бұрын
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.
@NeoRipshaft
16 күн бұрын
@@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.
@Nik-ei9st
16 күн бұрын
@@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
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.
🤣 hahah. Subscribed. You had me in stitches.
@stargoid670
3 күн бұрын
You’ll binge his content now, it happened to me 😝
I feel like the two-headed dog method is onto something when it comes to head transplants.
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
@Luxinda
16 күн бұрын
Brain and brain! What is brain?! 🖖
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! :)
@mwazra6625
14 күн бұрын
they are cousins? I can't seem to find a verification anywhere
Hahaha I can’t express how much I appreciate the CAKE OR DEATH clip!!! 😂
ADHD moment, I loved the Kepler 16b poster so much I looked it up only to find an entire collection on the NASA site. AMAZING! Great video as well!
I can’t even keep my tv cables labeled correctly….. much less nerves and all that important stuff
@MeganVictoriaKearns
17 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@feynstein1004
17 күн бұрын
That's why you're not a neurosurgeon bruh