I just thought of something.
Say somehow we were able to get every organ we need to make a human from different people. Now say we were able to put it all together and were able to pump blood through the body and give the heart a beat. Up to the point where the body would have a pulse and organs would be working. Would the creation just have the same attitude and feelings as the person whos brain we got it from? Would it turn into a brand new human with different feelings as the brain donator? Or if we were successful and the body was doing everything like pumping blood, beating the heart, lungs breathing, and everything else but it not actually being alive like talking and being a person would that prove that there is something more to us? Would it prove we have souls?
I honestly dont know if i explained that clearly enough. But its an interesting thought.
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Also say every organ donor had the same blood type and the body was somehow able to accept every donated part
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Med student here.
This has actually been tried by many (Nazis and Imperial Japanese comes to mind) and doesn't work because whatever immune system you gave this "person" would reject each organ.
Each cell has certain receptors on it that are recognized by your body and your body alone. Some cells are less specific than others (red blood cells for example, which is why you can donate blood but even it has to be pretty specific), but most are extremely specific.
If you get an organ donation, a heart transplant for example, you have to take meds for the rest of your life to suppress your immune system so it won't view the cardiac tissue as foreign and fuck it up.
But if this is more of a "who are we" type of question then yeah, the person would act and "be" the same person that you took the brain from. The reason for this is the brain is where everything that we associate with mentality is. There's a specific part of your brain responsible for your emotions (the limbic system), a part responsible for memory (many different parts actually), a part responsible for thought and choice making (the frontal lobe), and even a part responsible for producing consciousness (cerebral cortex).
Whether we have souls or not can't really be determined by studying the body (there's no evidence we do but who knows).
Makes sense?
It would he a hellish miserable existence. They brain grows with the body, so replacing every single organ, even if you could somehow survive it, would now doubt come a with horrendous pain and dysphoria.
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Yes thank you medfag.
But seriously that was really interesting. I actually didnt even know people who get transplants have to take meds for the rest of their lives.
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Some people do not have to take meds. My wife had a liver transplant when she was 5. The anti rejection drugs gave her lymphoma so she was taken off them. No one is quite sure why but her liver is perfect to this day without meds. Maybe because she was so young, the liver and immune system formed a symbiosis?
Thats really cool actually. Could it be because she was really young so her body was able to change easily?
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Yes it's likely that noone told the little girl rejection would happen so her brain didn't know it was possible, then her body just accepted the new organ. The brain is powerful. The body is powerful, together they shall ... sorry got caught in a tangent.
Yeah I forgot to mention there are weird cases, like the body altering the cells of an organ to match the cells of the recipient's body. The human body is a crazy fucking machine
Look up the ship of Theseus.
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Yea the brain really is insane. Telling the body what to do 24/7 non stop to keeo us alive without us even thinking about it. Its crazy
The psycho somatic element is kinda neat, my wife is a bit spacey so maybe the fact rejection didnt cross her mind is a good explanation.
Chimerism is also a good explanation except her blood type stayed the same, it seems to change for many people.
oh and to note, she has been drug free for 23 years. transplant at 5.
reach, but zero escape?
What about the theory that your stomach is your "2nd brain" wouldn't that have an effect on this person?
the real issue here is the person would be insane and probably kill themselves within a day or two since looking in a mirror would fuck up their existence. There have been cases of not even face transplants, just plastic surgery, where the person decides the person looking back at them in the mirror isn't themself and tries to kill it.
its your gut is your second brain, not the stomach. its because the gut bacteria manipulate the brain through the vagus nerve pathway by making neurotransmitters.