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Patricia Scripko, a neurologist and bioethicist at the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California, says that many of the ethical implications related to the surgery depend on how you define human life. "I believe that what is specifically human is held within the higher cortex. If you modify that, then you are not the same human and you should question whether it is ethical. In this case, you're not altering the cortex." However, she adds that many cultures would not approve of the surgery because of their belief in a human soul that is not confined to the brain.

Wouldn't this operation then be the chance to find out the truth about this? To end superstition and belief practices about the "location of the soul" and things like that?
 
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Patricia Scripko, a neurologist and bioethicist at the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California, says that many of the ethical implications related to the surgery depend on how you define human life. "I believe that what is specifically human is held within the higher cortex. If you modify that, then you are not the same human and you should question whether it is ethical. In this case, you're not altering the cortex." However, she adds that many cultures would not approve of the surgery because of their belief in a human soul that is not confined to the brain.

Wouldn't this operation then be the chance to find out the truth about this? To end superstition and belief practices about the "location of the soul" and things like that?
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Well, I guess the practice of heart transplants has already delivered a blow to the idea that the heart does litereally house one's feelings. At least I haven't heard about any research claiming that heart transplant patients adopt the emotional character of the donors.
 
There are anecdotes about such people 'not being themselves anymore' after the transplant, but the storytellers of course never make reference to the trauma such an operation might cause in the patients.
 
True that.

Neither do they mention the possibility that just living in this "maybe/maybe not" situation of waiting for a transplant and then finally getting one (which, if successful, drastically improves your life) in itself is quite a big influence on your emotional life.

(Phew, long sentence, but you're German. You're used to it)
 
IMHO, that's it. If you're having a heart transplant expect your life to change afterwards.
 
German learning is not so hard, I know of what I'm talking.
 
From: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...ake-stroll-on-florida-golf-course-goes-viral/
A giant alligator that was recently spotted on a Florida golf course has become a social media star.

The huge gator, described as “a dinosaur looking reptile” on the club’s Facebook page, appeared at the Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Fla. on March 6.

An image of the beast wandering the greens has been shared more than 13,000 times on the social media network.

The club said that the alligator was spotted on the No. 7 green moving from one pond to another, according to WPTV.

Myakka Pines Golf Club General Manager Mickie Zada told FoxNews.com that the gator was 12 or 13 feet long, and is one of dozens of alligators on the club's grounds.

"He's still out there," she said. "We had a women's tournament yesterday and a woman came in with a picture on her cellphone - it was exactly the same alligator."
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16 year old girl from Novi Pazar in Serbia gets a baby. Baby's father is in prison (28 years old btw.) Mother feeds her cow milk for a week. Baby gets sick. She calls the ambulance. They take the baby to the hospital in Novi Pazar. However, for further treatment they decide to move her to Belgrade. So ambulance vehicle starts the drive to Belgrade but on the way there, avalanche happens and the road is blocked off. Since it's cold, snowing etc, they get back and decide to get to Belgrade via helicopter. Weather is still terrible and even more dangerous, yet they still persist on flying and crash land near the airport. All 6 personnel and the baby dead.

2nd crazy story from yesterday: Woman is walking her 2 year old daughter in Belgrade. A man and a woman jump out of a BMW, punch the woman and take her daughter into the car and drive away. Few minutes later police is alerted and they block off all the city exits. Eventually the kidnappers are caught - they are French. Turns out the French woman kidnapped the girl because she looked like her daughter. Why did she need a doppelganger? Her husband wanted to take away her real daughter so she decided to kidnap a similar looking girl (real father never saw his daughter) to stand in for DNA tests which would then prove that the guy isn't her daughter's father, so that the French woman would get full custody... Dunno what they planned to do with the Serbian girl if they managed to pull all that off... Madness!
 
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