Can you ever see them being a way of helping the mentally disabled by creating Superior brains through laboratories?
Would you ever consider it to better yourself?
The only positive outcome from this would be a heightened intelligence. Someday, neurologists are going to figure out how to medically or surgically increase one's IQ in one procedure. However, this comes with a price. An entire brain transplant? You would find that patients would have completely different emotional and moral spectrum, as well as a sharp turn in personality. After all, the brain is the control center for all of these emotions; a full brain transplant may give you a different son or daughter in the process.
If it was possible could you see it being used to create a genetically superior army, almost like halo?
To create a genetically-superior army like Halo, you need to upgrade more than just the brain. You need to stimulate both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerves that connect from the spinal cord to the nerves of the body to have any sort of effects. Upgrading just the brain doesn't cut it. With this, it increases your reflexes and how well you adapt to dangerous situations. Too much of an increase on the nerves would just wear the body out; you need more juice to adapt to the brain's demands. Something such as steroids or adrenaline would jumpstart the body significantly.
How would you see it becoming possible to transplant working brains from one body to another etc?
The brain is just as vital an organ as the human heart is; if either one is removed, the body shuts down immediately. Therefore, if one must transplant a brain from one body to another, you must perform a surgical procedure how one would do a heart transplant--freezing. Sterilize and sedate the patient, remove the brain, and simply plant the other in like a seed. You need to make sure it fits correctly; there could be some pressure problems if the brain is too big or too small; the new brain may not adapt well with the spinal cord; if the brain cannot adapt to the body's immune responses, then the brain is screwed and the body will not survive.
I could see it happening in our lifetimes. It could be done. It however, can be so much more complicated than a liver or a heart transplant as the brain directly affects AND reflects how the body is responding to it.
Isn't your conscious basically in your brain? Meaning if your brain was transplanted into someone else's body, wouldn't that now be your body?
I think so. That's why I wouldn't want anybody try anything out on my brain.. But for cases like Patient HM, maybe transplanting a specific brain area or ganglion could help them to recover, even if through the transplant their conscious could vary from before.. Well, I see a huge moral debate ahead^^
I don't think humans should run around playing with brains... Doesn't sound like the good in it would be without a heck of a lot of "Zombies" (brain dead)
