How could a severed head be kept alive?
” The only things stopping heads from being kept alive is the central nervous system (which could theoretically be simulated) and the fact you’d have about 20 seconds to connect each vein and artery to a machine that feeds the blood with nutrients and oxygen otherwise the brain would run out of 02 and die.” from the net. —————- U.S. neurosurgeon Robert White White’s real hope is that, one day, he’ll be able to supervise the first human head transplant surgery, but until then, he’s not about to discourage curiosity, be it from Scientific American or Hard Copy. Though he retired from clinical surgery a few years ago (he’s 74), he still puts on his lab coat frequently for interviews with reporters from all over the world, conducted in a made-for-B-movie “laboratory” in the basement of MetroHealth Medical Center. The dusty relic of the gleaming ward where he performed the surgery is crowded with skull drills, electrodes, and the requisite brain in formaldehyde. Cleveland brain su
