Rowan Hooper

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1,494 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The World, the Universe and Us · Scientists Pioneer Surgical Methods for Human Head and Eye Transplants · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

He said he's trying to do body transplants.

I think he's done them in pigs, not dogs.

That was a previous Russian experiment way before him.

But yeah, there have been some pretty gruesome animal experiments.

And he does want to try transplanting a human head onto a different body.

Yeah.

I mean, Canavero is still talking, just to get back to him again, he is still talking about this as if it's a really feasible, plausible thing that he intends to try doing the body transplant in humans.

And ultimately, it would be a brain transplant, what he's talking about.

And the idea that futurists like to think about is when your body wears out, you just take your brain, put it in a nice young new body.

But yes, very grim.

Yeah, I mean, that's probably a massive plot hole in their argument, isn't it?

So it does sort of hint towards it's the life extension thing rather than... And we want a nice young body rather than a saggy old one or a damaged one, you know, ravaged by sun and injury and illness and all of that.

Yeah, or at least they're prepared to talk about going to.

Let's see whether they actually go to it.

Rather than the head transplant route.

Yeah, fair enough.

I'll accept that.

All right, that's all for this week.

Thanks to our guest, Alexandra Thompson.

And thanks to you for listening.

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