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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 2 年前

Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body

www.utsouthwestern.edu

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Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body

www.utsouthwestern.edu

EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 2 年前
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Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a device that can isolate blood flow to the brain, keeping the organ alive and functioning independent from the rest of the body for several hours.
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    Richard Nixon’s head approves.

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    Did it maintain the same consciousness?

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      Hard to ask to the pig they used for the experiment 😅 I suspect we are talking of highly sedated brains anyway

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        Talk about nightmare fuel…

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          don’t worry. youll be hooked up to neurolink so that we can hear your screems.

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    So you have a brain completely disconnected from the world? Reminds me of a Metallica song

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    Sweeeeet!

    Manmade horrors beyond my comprehension!

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        Somewhat off topic, but that sounds like the average day for a lot of historians.

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    My idea that instead of retirement I would just have my head mounted to a robot body so I could continue working comes closer to fruition.

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    I guess that’s the end of organ donations, then.

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      No, it simply means the creation of an organ donor class. The poor will be harvested as cattle for the affluent.

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