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Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body (www.utsouthwestern.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by vernes1978 to c/mindupload

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In an animal model using anesthesia, the researchers redirected the brain’s blood supply through a pump that maintained or adjusted a range of variables, including blood pressure, volume, temperature, oxygenation, and nutrients. The team found that brain activity and other measurements had minimal to no changes over a five-hour period.

Before you imagine a brain in a jar, it's just a heart-long machine but specifically for the brain.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure I like where this is going.

[–] 86d 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The heads in jars in Futurama being accurate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s one of those "they focused too much on what they could do and not enough on what they should do." There are so many steps between where we are and this monstrosity.
It sounds like a living nightmare.

[–] 86d 1 points 1 year ago

I agree Krang was always angry at something. Sounds like a quick way to insanity.