Body Swapping

[BoyNeedsGirl]

Does anyone else fantasize about completely swapping bodies with other people? For instance, waking up as your girlfriend / boyfriend and living their lives....

Also, why are people not researching brain transplants for this kind of thing? Who wouldn't want to at least try it?

[shadows]

Who's to say their lives would be any better?

Personally, I am fine with who I am, warts and all.

[send.the.love]

Originally Posted by BoyNeedsGirl

Does anyone else fantasize about completely swapping bodies with other people? For instance, waking up as your girlfriend / boyfriend and living their lives....

Also, why are people not researching brain transplants for this kind of thing? Who wouldn't want to at least try it?

We are a long way off before we do any fullscale brain transplants. The human brain is the most complex organ and we have have barely tapped the surface in discovering how it works and then some.

I don't fantasize swapping, but rather just waking up a new person. I've wondered what kind of woman I would be, and I've also wondered what it be like if I were more androgynous male.

"Swapping" is little too sophomoric for my taste.

[BoyNeedsGirl]

Originally Posted by send.the.love

We are a long way off before we do any fullscale brain transplants. The human brain is the most complex organ and we have have barely tapped the surface in discovering how it works and then some.

I don't fantasize swapping, but rather just waking up a new person. I've wondered what kind of woman I would be, and I've also wondered what it be like if I were more androgynous male.

"Swapping" is little too sophomoric for my taste.

The problem is, there isn't enough research into the brain but more research into trying to cure incurable diseases. If, say we spent more time researching the brain, we would have a better understanding on how it works and transplants would more likely be possible.

[smc]

Originally Posted by BoyNeedsGirl

The problem is, there isn't enough research into the brain but more research into trying to cure incurable diseases. If, say we spent more time researching the brain, we would have a better understanding on how it works and transplants would more likely be possible.

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?

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.

And as for brain research, perhaps you would be interested in a small piece of what is happening at my institution.

http://bcs.mit.edu/

http://mcgovern.mit.edu/

Brain transplants? Hmmm...

I've got visions of that old Sci-Fi cliche of the brain inside the jar, all wired up and talking (almost as if it doesn't know it's in a jar)

[TracyCoxx]

I've got dibs on a #6

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

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?

???? Ummm, eh? Backwardsmuch?

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.

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.

[smc]

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.