If brain transplants were possible, would the soul be removed with the brain do you think? (doctor, religion)
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Not sure if this was the right forum for this, but couldn't find another one, I thought this would fit into.
Basically I was wondering, in the future if it was possible, how would it work, do you think?
Let's say parents wanted to cure their mentally challenged child and the doctors told them it could be done with a brain transplant. Would the child's soul and personality still be that of the same person, but now with a new brain to help them develop better... or would he/she attain the soul and personality of that of who the brain originally belonged to?
Until proven otherwise, we are our brains. Also, being that we consider the brain our barometer of life, wouldn’t brain transplants be killing a person to replace with another? The brain is not just another body part.
Well I meant if a person dies, and the brain could be scientifically preserved temporarily with future technology, then maybe there would be enough time to transplant it perhaps to the next person on the waiting list.
Some people who have received heart transplants have experienced a complete change in food preferences, along with certain personality changes. To some extent, we are our hearts.
You do know that if you physically damage your brain then your personality and youness (your soul) usually changes also? The idea that there is this immutable soul thing floating around that could be entirely disconnected from the brain and just in it as a vessel is probably just wishful thinking. Although the connection between (any) consciousness and brain structure & function is not understood, it appears to be en emergent phenomenon at the least and many chemical and physical damage studies show the "character" a person is certainly underlayed by their brain structure. Work in head trauma in hospitals and you'll see many people become "someone else" after accidental brain injury according to people who knew them before and after.
Well I meant if a person dies, and the brain could be scientifically preserved temporarily with future technology, then maybe there would be enough time to transplant it perhaps to the next person on the waiting list.
I think you are looking at this backwards. If my brain could somehow be transplanted into another body it would essentially be a donor body, not a donor brain. I would be me in a different body, not the other way around. We are our brains.
I bet many scientists believe in the concept of a soul. I wouldn't label it "ridiculous" just because we humans can't fully understand it all. That's OUR limitations.
When you talk of 'soul' you are mixing religion with science. A brain transplant would be 100% science, so the thread is ridiculous.
Yes, soul is known to scientists as a type of music popular in the early 1970s.
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