[ExI] head transplants

[Gordon]

Spike,

>>…If and when they become possible, I think they should be called body transplants as opposed to head transplants. If my doctor told me he wanted to attach a donor body to my head, I would consider it. If he wanted to attach a donor head to my body, I would definitely seek a second opinion.  Gordon
 
 
> Gordon, in the context of this question, we now need to define the term “my” in reference to both bodies and both heads....  
  

If we call it a head transplant instead of a body transplant then it is the only kind of transplant in which the recipient 
will never know of his good fortune. I can know that I received a new body, but I cannot know that I received a new head. 

Gordon
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