Bringing dead brains back to life

[Zibago]

Bringing dead brains back to life

Two bio-tech companies, in the US and India, have been given permission by their governments to look into how to regenerate the brains of people who have been declared clinically dead. So how can this be done and will this redefine what death means? Newsday's Julian Keane spoke to Anders Sandberg, a neuroethicist at the University of Oxford.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vpp0r?ocid=socialflow_facebook

 

[Commander Haris]

The US have granted a biotech company permission to regenerate the brains of dead people, in a groundbreaking new trial set to begin this year
Bioquark.inc. are looking for 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, in order to test whether they can successfully regenerate parts of their central nervous system – thus bringing them back to life.
The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord – the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat.
The team believes that the brain stem cells may be able to erase their history and re-start life again, based on their surrounding tissue – a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs.

 

[Tripoli]

Lets hope it turns out be a success.

 

[Commander Haris]

Lets hope it turns out be a success.

but the question is that is it morally ethical

 

[Hamza913]

ZOMBIES!

 

[Commander Haris]

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Indians did the brain transplant back in the 80s , nothign new here

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

ZOMBIES!

Yeah, messing with people's brain and hoping they come out as the same person seems unlikely. What will the relatives think when their loved one wakes up as a complete stranger. They will yell Frankenstein at the doctors. Then do they keep it in a padded room for 30 years.

 

[Tripoli]

but the question is that is it morally ethical

You do have a point. However, I doubt this debate will ever have a conclusion.

 

[Zibago]

Yeah, messing with people's brain and hoping they come out as the same person seems unlikely. What will the relatives think when their loved one wakes up as a complete stranger. They will yell Frankenstein at the doctors. Then do they keep it in a padded room for 30 years.

What if it paves way for cyborgs?

I wouldnt mind being turned into a zombie if it means i can see 2200

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

What if it paves way for cyborgs?

I wouldnt mind being turned into a zombie if it means i can see 2200

Oh you'll see 2020...but you'll have no idea it is 2020.

 

[Zibago]

Oh you'll see 2020...but you'll have no idea it is 2020.

Hey i will be half robot half zombie

 

[Kal Muah]

Just imagine if dead brain can be given feedback using electrical signals, that they are alive, then what if we are into matrix?

 

[Commander Haris]

dont you think this research supports the concept of reborn of peoples on doomsday

 

[Shah Xaib]

A good news for the gamers