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I agree with Batjer, i would not trust that Canavero doctor...Originally Posted by article
Also not seeing how it can be even legal to do something like this. Yes, IF it worked it could have been an improvement over Valery's position, and Valery obviously wants to have the hope it may work. But it is pretty clear there is no way the doctor knows what will happen.
It is like giving an elementary schooler Riemann's hypothesis and expect the child to prove it without even knowing what imaginary numbers are, or most other parameters there. It is inherently impossible, not just hugely unlikely.
It is pretty much certain it will either not work at all (ie the patient dies immediately) or it will have hellish side effects, given that even minor transplants have notable risk of there being rejection of the transplanted part by your body.
It is pretty much unethical to suggest the foreign body will just fit in with the brain connections this person has, and to think those will just alter fast enough to (merely) sustain him alive is probably utterly false as well.
It wouldn't surprise me if he cannot even move the new body at all. At least willingly.
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What do you think of this experiment? Will it work? And is it ethical?