Is this possible?

Deep question and one I am not sure we can answer, but I like to think deep, so here goes! Depends on what you believe. I believe the body and the spirit to be separate parts of a person. I am not sure that the spirit is contained in the brain. That's why to me this is such a deep question. I suppose if the brain was transplanted, whatever is stored in the brain would still be there. Even so, the brain with stored memory and not the spirit would be very similar to this computer. It has memory and no soul. Hope my brain dies with me when I check out of this life! I don't want 'me' locked away inside a strangers body.

How much memory is in an individual cell? Or ask yourself, Is there any memory storage except in the brain? Are all the genes in the brain? Do we really know why the brain projects a missing member?

There are some strange indications from people with transplants that not all memory resides in the brain. There are more and more brain scans pointing towards a finding that most human decisions are based on emotions.

If I were going to write a story based on your idea; I would suggest that the results might be open ended. One brain might have good recall, another be totally confused and yet another set up existence based on total loss or overpowering input from the new body. There might be factors in matching and whether one is able to view familiar people and places.

Now I don't have total recall from hour to hour. What if they make connections on a bad hair day? Do we really know who we are to begin with?

Answer: Anybodies guess.

I think you would remember everything you would have remembered had it not taken place... If it were possible.

But that MAY not ever be possible, (I am not saying it is impossible, but I don't see it happening). My reasoning is this.

Your brain is connected to all the nerves in your body via spinal cord. When someone breaks their neck near the top, and there has been nerve damage, they become a quadriplegic. Their brain can't communicate to the rest of the body.

Doctors would not let something like that take place due to the oaths they take upon becoming doctors.

Also the sheer resources that would be needed, (I don't think), could be possible.

Another thing is cloning, and genetics wouldn't play a major factor in this, and mapping the genome is one thing...Getting it to turn out like it should is like winning the lotto... There are WAY to many ways for the genes to twist, and no guarantees it will work.

CyberNara

One or two that answered you don't understand your question ,,,,,In theory ,,,,,,, If the brain is kept intact it would most likely be the same conscious person but different body ,,,,, Sounds like a great idea when you give it some thought but I really don't think that mans capabilities will ever reach that stage of development ,,,, But when you ponder the idea it doesn't seem too bad ,,,,and could be funny too ,,, I mean ,,,,can you imagine George W's brain in a woman's body ? lol ,,,,,, He'd probably sit around and play with himself all day lol ,,,,, He probably does that already with his own body ,,,, He certainly doesn't use his brain for anything else ,,,,, He has two heads like any other male but he's brain dead at best lol ,,, some of the people trying to answer your question have brought up all kinds of different things about this ,, that ,, or the other but the four key words to the question is ,,,,,,,, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE

It's science fiction, not science... People seem to forget that brain is only a part of a human nervous system. Spinal cord and miles of nerves are also integral parts of who you are.

An analogy, imperfect as it may be, would be like taking out a hard drive with an operating system from one computer and plugging it into another. Will it run? No, it won't. At least not immediately. It will take quite some time to "rewire" all connections between the OS and the hardware, and in some cases it might never work at all. And the complexity of of human body is thousands times greater.

Well, the answers , however true, may just end up as mere stories of 'other' person, just because, the true understanding lies in personal experience. Once a person has experienced his 'self' as a separate entity, manifesting in the body, then the person can easily use any number of brains, and appear like many to others(remember ?......the dual/split personality stories), and yet remain free from it. What is done with material , physical things, has to remain restricted to only the material cause and effect cycle . Functionally it may appear to give a TOTAL change, but in existential terms, nothing really affects, the true 'being' just forsakes the body, when its own hidden agenda gets disrupted !

Well, so far medicine is not able to repair a damaged spinal cord that has immobilized you from the neck down. So, if you were to try to transplant a brain, of course you would have to cut the spinal cord off of it, and then medicine wouldnt be able to glue it onto the new body. At least in this century. Make sense?

Good question-they would need a machine to keep the brain going while it wasn't in a body, but then yes...I'd say you would recall everything, because it is your brain, right? Anyway, I think you asked a really great question, and it really made me think.

As long as the brain wasn't deprived of oxygen you would... otherwise you'd be disabled/amnesic/brain dead.... your memory lives in the cerebrum... a part of your brian which has short and long term memory. the brain also has a part called the amygdala which is apparently responsible for emotions etc so I thik you could expect to be the same person but trapped in someone elses body!

yes a total recall would happen , i guess u wont fit in the new body now ur brain is so much used to ur owun body , ultimately a total bad experience LOL