Humans can survive with a Cardiopulmonary bypass machine with no actual heart inside their bodies. Dialysis can keep the heart clean, and parental feeding can provide the body with necessary nutrients. So… would it be possible to keep a person with no limbs, torso and chest alive? Basically… a head with a neck? Could this person actually survive for more than a few hours?
A head transplant or full body transplant is an experimental surgical operation involving the grafting of one organism's head onto the body of another. In many experiments, the recipient's head has not been removed, but in others it has been. Experimentation in animals began in the early 1900s. As of 2024[update], no lasting successes have been achieved.
There are three main technical challenges. As with any organ transplant, managing the immune response to avoid transplant rejection is necess...
The scientist who did the dog experiment was Sergei Brukhonenko, and you can see extremely disturbing video of it here. (I removed the link) The head reacts to stimuli, but I don’t know how “alive” it is, exactly. There’s also video of a second insane experiment, attaching a second head to a living dog.
You know what, I’ve thought better of linking to the video, because what follows it, and the other “suggested videos”, are just too messed up. Search for the guy’s name if you want to see them.
Everybody in the thread seems to be talking about head (or full body) transplants (except the guy who got modded for bringing up Jan in the Pan before a serious answer to the OP had been submitted). But the way I read the OP, a Jan in the Pan scenario is exactly what he’s asking about.
Correction: some of Qadgop’s links seem to cover the actual question.
