New Body?

[MrsLadyBug]

As my body is showing signs of age , wear and tear, but feeling mentally only 35 ish I said as a joke to my daughter, who asked did I want anything (tea or coffee!) I said as a joke, Yes a new body to fit my brain.
But just wondering , if it were really possible , would any of you consider it?
I know it's very unlikely, but who knows what they will be able to achieve in time?

[jakep]

Head transplants have been performed on some animals.
Apparently they have the first human already signed up.
Scary stuff.
No, I wouldn’t consider it....would like a thinner one though!!

[gness]

MrsLadyBug.....I don't think I'd be too fussed about having a whole new body....but I'd consider it!...Nope....I'd more than consider it!
What I would love is to regain the ability to spring up from a crouching position.
I have, for the last two weeks, been cleaning a grubby house.....from the skirting boards I have to have something to hold onto to get upright.
In the bank yesterday I watched a young girl crouch down to a low cupboard and then spring up.....oh for my aging body to be able to do that... :-(

[pixie374]

No :-). Your body and brain already fit perfectly. I know people often say they feel the same as they did at 18... etc, but I suspect most would be quite shocked by the difference if they actually woke up tomorrow that way. It just happens too gradually to notice. As long as everything works...

[Old_Geezer]

Difficult to envisage a situation where the trauma of such a thing would seem worth it. Maybe on one's deathbed, but by then the brain may have gone anyway.

[MrsLadyBug]

Know exactly how you feel.
I get so frustrated somedays that I cant do the things my mind is planning for me.

[sherrardk]

This one puzzles me, the man who is planning on going through with this calls it a head transplant but I think he’s having a body transplant (because he’s getting a new body, a body’s not getting a new head (well it is, but you know what I mean)).

[MrsLadyBug]

^^^ that for Gness

O G Maybe in the case of a person badly paralysed from neck down it would be worth the trauma ...

[gness]

Thing is, Pixie.....my brain and body don't fit perfectly......today my brain was sure I could climb the ladder to clean out the gutters by over stretching.....my body soon told me my brain was having a laugh... :-(

[MrsLadyBug]

No mine don't fit either Pixie,
Its my hands and feet with the arthritis not my brain

[gness]

This was an interesting question.....especially after Pixie’s post. Would I want to wake up tomorrow with my eighteen year old body? Well yes....I can’t think of a reason not to...except for the deep red hair....that would look odd....x

[woofgang]

hmmm first response would be I'd love to have my young body (not someone else's) back.....then I thought about the years of PMS and doing the menopause again and I am not so sure.....but can I have my old knees and spine again please? I trashed them working in the NHS before the days of LOLER regs (manual handling)

[Ellipsis]

> I know it's very unlikely, but who knows what they will be able to achieve in time?

Suppose your entire personality and memory could be implanted into a robot, either just before you died or even to create a companion for you while living. It would be intelligent, so continue to learn and develop within that robot. It would be able to live long enough for space travel to other planets and solar systems. Would you want that?

[Peter Pedant]

// Head transplants have been performed on some animals.//
paralysed from the neck down if you think about it

there is a two headed Ally - the second head sewn on ....
and it wags its tail and enjoys its food ( well it is a darg for chrissakes) but that is the first body

yeah I wouldnt mind alan turings brayne or einstein's
into the bargain.....

sozza taking this too seriously again

[gness]

I’ve given it thought, Ellipsis and no is my answer...and I don’t know why but it doesn’t appeal...x

[MrsLadyBug]

I don't know what I would do.
I would probably accept a younger female body, not neccessarily
a teenager, maybe 40ish.
But would be happy if it worked.
And no I wouldn't want to be a robot.

[Buenchico]

>>> . . . I said as a joke, Yes a new body to fit my brain

Hmm, now let me think about what type of body I'd need to fit my brain, which is old, tired, drink-sodden and slow to function.

Oh, it seems that I've already got the ideal body to go with it!

;-)

[Calicogirl]

I wouldn't mind being a robot, assuming I could have all my loved ones also as robots and still feel things in the way I do now - for me it would be a leveller since Mr Cal is a lot older than me. If it was just me, then no I wouldn't want that. x

[Arksided]

No not for me, although I do like the idea of waking up with my own eighteen year old body, I was super-fit back then, fewer creaks and less scars.

[Old_Geezer]

"Suppose your entire personality and memory could be implanted into a robot"

But that wouldn't be me as there's no real continuity. It'd be a data copy of my mental processes. At most one might be able to claim it's something that erroneously thinks it was once me.

[mallyh]

after some of my answers to crosswords and quizzes I think a new brain would be better lol x