[ExI] Will head transplants be the new life extension method?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the headline of an article is a question, to which the answer is "no",
> the article is neither worth publishing nor reading.

not a fan of clickbait?

> Where would the transplanted body come from?  Either you're growing it from
> the head's cells (in which case it's not a "transplant" as commonly defined
> - redefining words to make a story seem more attractive/controversial/worth
> reading than it is, is basically lying - and keeping the head on life
> support while growing the body from it is likely to produce better results),
> or you're using someone else's body (in which case there are organ rejection
> issues, not to mention the supply of headless bodies which do not
> essentially boil down to murders is likely to remain far smaller than the
> demand).

If you abandon the requirement for a biological body, you will
probably have your pick of several robot options most likely
factory-produced in southeast Asia.  :)