No one has cloned a human being.

what happens when the brain goes kaput? or you have an aneurysm/stroke/Alzheimer's/ etc etc?

i really do not see what the point of replacing your transplant-able organs unless you plan on drinking till your liver fails, smoking till your lungs fail, etc

place old brain in new body ofc

afaik, the cloned brain would be built up from genetic make-up of your brain. that does not mean that everything stored as memory will be in your new brain. so you will need to learn to walk, talk, speak, etc etc. also id imagine it would be very fun to connect all the nerves together.

Yeah, that's probably true, but he was suggesting putting the old (i.e. not a cloned) brain into the new body. I'm not a biologist so I don't know what causes the aging process to begin (or more precisely, I know that it somehow involves a decrease in mitochondrial activity, but I don't know what triggers that), but if it's just a part of cells aging and replicating too many times, then swapping the brain into another body should undo that aging.

Though there is the problem of brain cell death. Could that be addressed by the introduction of some stem cells onto the old brain? Would they be able to generate new brain tissue to replace the dying cells?

ah yes, my bad. i totally misread lol- tired eyes . thought he said replace the old brain...

with that though, there are still some troubles
1) wiring all the connections... i mean severed ties in those that are generally not repaired. so if they cannot connect nerves in paralyzed people, how are they going to fix nerve endings in an old brain to a new body.
2) you would have to have a new body just waiting for the brain to come and would have to be about 3 minutes away from that new body before the brain cells start to die due to lack of oxygen.
3) expense. it would be quite expensive to keep a new body just waiting for you and keep it at required needs - ie temp., pH, etc

This post was edited by cialda on Dec 15 2010 08:42am

lol, when i read the topic title i totally thought of that coke zero commercial haha

LOL

ethics? in America? in America, you can get anything with the right amount of money, if its scientifically possible that is...

sometimes not legally obviously, but its possible haha.

This post was edited by Ruptur33 on Dec 24 2010 08:52pm

i have 9 clones of myself, i will never die