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Originally Posted by smc

How in the world do you equate brain transplants and body swapping? Do you think that a transplanted brain from a person of a different gender would suddenly make your body different?

Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna

???? Ummm, eh? Backwardsmuch?

What I mean, Anna, is not that a transplanted brain would fail to make one's body feel different. I am referring to the physical reality of the body. If a GG's brain were transplanted into my current body, I would not suddenly have a vagina.

Originally Posted by smc

No disease is incurable. That goes against everything biologists understand. It may not be possible to develop the cure, but incurability qua incurability is a misnomer.

Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna

Physics and Chemistry may have some contradictions there... Everyone's gotta die of something, and the laws of thermodynamics say you can't live forever.

What I wrote does not state that I believe humans are immortal, as you imply. I simply wrote that the fact that we die of a disease does not mean that the disease "incurable." It may only be that we have yet to find the cure and perhaps never will. The word "incurable" is a misnomer; we should use the phrase "currently incurable" or "not yet curable" or even perhaps "never curable because we just aren't smart enough to figure it out." Disease is either an impairment of health caused by an external factor, which in theory could be eliminated (e.g., a cancer-causing agent in the drinking water), or an abnormal functioning of some part of the human body system, which in theory could be corrected so that it functions normally.

Nothing I wrote contradicts physics, chemistry, or the laws of thermodynamics.