Head Transplant

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The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. His idea? Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto a younger, healthier body. Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses. But he never…

The built-in AI in these camera-less smart glasses needs a lot more work.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is more common in people who experience extensive repetitive head impacts, and infrequent among individuals with isolated brain injuries or less extensive impacts, researchers from the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai have found.

Learn more about human head transplants. Are they possible? And what moral dilemmas do they bring forth?

Neuralink achieved two brain transplants in a day, targeting 20 by year-end. CEO Elon Musk envisions healing paralysis and blindness.

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AI Siri May Be Forced to Get Emergency Brain Transplant from OpenAI or Anthropic  GizmodoTech giants play musical chairs with foundation models  AxiosApple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal  Bloomberg.comApple Intelligence with less ‘Apple’? Why that might be the exact right move  9to5MacBreakingviews - Apple fruitlessly ponders the innovator’s dilemma  Reuters

After failing to release its AI-powered Siri last year, Apple needs to do some major surgery on its voice assistant ASAP.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.  An animated video posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV ad, but…

An animated video posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV ad, but the pitch is straight out of the far future. The arms of an octopus-like robotic surgeon swirl, swiftly removing the head of a dying man and placing it onto a young healthy body.  This is BrainBridge, the animated…

Brain transplants (or at least head transplants) might one day be possible, but medical science is nowhere near doing one safely.

Recently, Zielinski and Sokal [ Zielinski, P., Sokal, P. (2016). Full spinal cord regeneration after total transection is not possible due to entropy change. Medical Hypotheses, 94, 63-65] proposed one hypothesis by considering three assumptions against the spinal cord regeneration after total transection. Thus, their claims are concluding that head transplant is not possible. But, using theoretical justifications, we show that head transplant is possible without any information loss. We design a spinal cord logic circuit bridge (SCLCB), which is a reversible logic circuit and thus, we show that there is no information loss.