Brain Transplant (poll)

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Sure, I would consider it if:

1) the chance of success is zero

2) in the unlucky case it succedds they guarantee they'll say "ok, we were just kidding, here's your old brain" and put back the original one immediately

more important

3) the whole experiment is VERY well paid

That's logically impossible. Removing someone's brain is killing them, and as such any operation would have a 100% mortality rate (unless you were to put the original brain in another body, in which case the operation would be better described as a 'body transplant').

I voted no, but then I thought who's brain would I get

A brain transplant to cure Asperger? Isn't a bit like Dr. Niemann trying to cure lycanthropy in "House of Frankenstein" by transplanting a new brain into the wolf man Talbott and then punishing the person responsible for putting the doctor in prison by sticking Talbott's werewolf brain into his skull?

If there were a 100% survival rate, I would still say no.

No because I don't want to be a completely different person. And you'd have to learn everything from the begining and start off like a baby again.
But I have wished I had one when I feel all moody and stuff and feeling sorry for myself

3 reasons why I wouldn't want to have it, because:

1. I wouldn't know who I would turn out to be
2. It could become unsuccessful or kill me
3. I love the way i'am to even change myself

If I really wanted to be cured or fixed, i'm obviously must be that crazy to do it

I was also thinking that too when my teacher asked me that.

I would never want to change my personality. Being an aspie may not be perfect, but it beats not having a life any day.

uh. . . does anyone really know that?

Boldly as she goes....

Existence vs. otherwise...
Existence being the above state in which one can make such a judgement, it automatically wins.

nah because then i would be a whole different me, and thatll be weird for everybody not just me haha

No. If they took my brain out and replaced it with someone else's brain, that would just end up being someone else in my body. Even if the other brain could survive in my body, I would still essentially be dead (unless they put my brain in a different body, then I'd still be me, but with a different body, and probably brain damage as a result of the surgery). Your brain makes you who you are, not your body, so "you" couldn't possibly get a new brain.

No, I would not have a brain transplant to become NT---reason?---because I do not want to become an NT, I am happy being autistic. Of course, my answer is no surprise to those of you that know me. Even if there was a magic pill that would take away my autism with no risks(and it came with a million dollars as a bonus), I would still not take it.

You wouldn't "be a completely different person." You simply wouldn't "be" at all.

A brain transplant is technically not a brain transplant; it's more like a body transplant. The "you" that you are now is the "you" that gets thrown out with the medical waste when they take out the "old" brain, and the NT that donated the brain gets to walk around in your body.

So... uhh... no. No thanks. Not unless I were brain-dead, like any organ donor should be.

I wouldn't do it even with a 100% chance of survival, zero pain and no recovery time.

I am perfectly happy the way I am (except for prosopagnosia, I hate that one, but I'd rather tell people about it now that I know it exists than changing anything else in me through a "transplant").