How Many Body Parts Can Be Replaced?

[@lifenoggin]

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[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@Maus_Indahaus]

Technically, if you replace your entire body except brain/nervous system, you'd still be you. We could go even further, only some parts of the brain need to be preserved for you to still be you. Our skin, bones, muscles and other organs are, as someone explained, just a spacesuit that allows our brain - us, to survive in this environment.

[@ahmed4363]

its an earthsuit

[@sutsuj6437]

There are theories that the bacteria in the gut can influence one's diet, so changing that could result in you being slightly different than before the transplant.

[@D0R0R0O]

So we are just brains wearing meat suits

[@dfredankey]

@@D0R0R0O yea

[@BasedCroatia]

Indeed

[@FacterinoCommenterino]

Today's fact: The collars on men's dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@Cliffordlonghead]

Congratulations you are first

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But why did that change?

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@@exploratory-fordora9672 I wrote an essay on 20th century fashion and what I found was that it’s because the washing machine was invented and changing the collars used a string to attach and detach the collar and it was too much effort >_

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[@Friendship1nmillion]

@@lifenoggin My Mum says the uterus *CAN'T* be replaced . I'm suprised that whole eyeballs 👀 can't be transplanted . Maybe , with stem-cell research the eyeball nerve endings can be mended Or replaced with artificially made nerve endings made from the recipient's blood cells Or saliva cells . I'm 💯% sure in the future , people will be able to walk & talk again after brain surgery by a section of the disabled person's brain being replaced by the same campus of the brain from a organ donor . Evidence in example of the Kevin Costner #movie 🎬 " Criminal " { which I would like to see made into a TV 📺 series } . ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴

[@akpsyche1299]

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[@jaredrufolo2588]

I believe that all a person needs in order to be themself is their specific consciousness.

[@tomsektul31]

So a brain?

[@jaredrufolo2588]

@@tomsektul31 essentially yes.

[@teentraveler1790]

The replacement of the brain to another body reminds me of a messed up scene from a sci-fi comic I read a while back. Something about given the honor of going to a place called "Paradise". But it wasn't a physical place. It was actually going into a machine that intricately dissects you until only your brain and eyeballs are left. Afterwards it makes a whole new 'perfect' body.

[@RyanOShea00]

In the future we'll all be Ships of Theseus.

[@visoth7791]

My idea of what makes "you", you; are your memories. If you were to remove or alter each of your individual memories, eventually you would become someone completely different. Examples like Alzheimer/dementia sufferers. In the case of memory loss, you cease to be you and are closer to just a husk of your former self. In the case of memory alteration, you become a different person. So in other words, its your experiences in life that make up yourself and personality.

[@ReaperofValhalla]

My personal take on that theory also includes the Crew if it is analogy for a body. A ship is just a ship. It might be a battleship, might be a trade ship, a hauler or a pleasure yacht. It is whatever the crew needs it to be. But the crew might change over time, some leave, some get lost at sea and need to be replaced, some stay until the very end but the captain stays the same for the captain goes down with his ship. You can replace every part of the ship while the captain is there… it will still be his ship, just shiny and new. You can replace the crew because they never last forever as they change as time and events goes on, it’s still the Captains ship. The captain can get a new ship and a new crew and it will be Business as usual but when the captain goes so too does the soul, for the captain goes down with his ship but the ship does not drown with the captain.

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

That's a really good metaphor

[@Firemaster27]

Technically a captain is nothing without a crew to be captain for, so until every piece of evidence is lost to time, a ship and it’s inhabitants will always be the same as long as the Memories of them preserve The captain could die, but then a former crew member takes up the mantle with his memories of the ship on hand The crew could die, but the captain could bring in new talent with the advices And memories from the former crew The whole ship could have been destroyed, but everyone that was on it could get a new one with memories intact The only way the ship is no longer the ship is never, only when nothing is left and it is lost to history is it truly no longer itself, because as long as the memories preserve, no matter when they were made, everything is still everything But that’s just a theory A PHILOSOPHY THEORY Thanks for reading

[@ReaperofValhalla]

I took it as the crew is it’s mind and memory and the Captain is the soul as in relation to the video. You could have the same ship say a fishing boat with a fishing crew. You replace the fishing crew with a hauler crew then the fishing boat is no longer a fishing boat even though it’s built like one. It’s the same thing with a brain. You replace my brain with your brain I will no longer be me even though my body still stays the same. You replace the crew but keep the Captain I am still me even if I don’t remember who I am or what I am capable of. Kinda like Jason Borne. Same ship, Same Captain but the crew is missing. Though I like your take on it along with the Matpat reference.

[@tricckk2976]

It’s crazy how much we can transplant. Like I just find it bad super interesting that we can just switch lungs with other people lmao

[@helloyoungones1678]

#Dearblocko What’s considered the rarest disorder (I’ve got Perpendicular Nodular Herotiopia.. basically too many folded brain cells and I’m the only one in my country that has it) Also thanks to a car accident 30 years ago my dads left side is almost completely metal and we call him the terminator for it 😂

[@ahmed4363]

bro has the terminator as his dad and the Only one who has a disorder in his country probably both very lucky and unlucky

[@DeAdX_X666]

Perpendicular Nodular Herotiopia?

[@alices020]

@@DeAdX_X666 I think he meant periventricular nodular heterotopia lol

[@milaniedwards5584]

Wow

[@helloyoungones1678]

@@alices020 yeah that 😂 It’s a big word and I’m still trying to learn how to spell the damn thing (btw I’m female… that apparently makes it even Rarer 😅)

[@PaleGhost69]

Well, technically, every 11 years or so your body has replaced every cell in it with a new cell meaning that you aren't the same person or body from 11 years ago.

[@BlueFrenzy]

Technically that's also an average. Brain cells, for instance, are not replaced and the vast majority of cells in your brain are the same as when you are a kid.

[@PaleGhost69]

@@BlueFrenzy That's actually no longer considered correct. People keep making new brain cells throughout their lives (well at least until the age of 97), according to a study on human brains.

[@BlueFrenzy]

@@PaleGhost69 That you generate new cells doesn't mean that the cells that die are replaced. Cells that die are, mostly, unreplaced.

[@PaleGhost69]

@@BlueFrenzy That's what replaced means...?

[@BlueFrenzy]

@@PaleGhost69 No. Take a cell of your skin. If it's damaged it dies and another cell takes its position. That's replacing a cell. Yor cells in the brain are not replaced. If one cell dies no other one is going to replace it. Other cells may grow in different parts of your brain, but what's lost is lost forever. The biggest mass of your brain is the same as when you were young and if you lose that part, that part cannot be recovered. As an analogy, you can grow the wisdom teeth when you are an adult but that doesn't mean the wisdom teeth are replacing any missing teeth.

[@zin6zinzin6]

The question reminds me of the fact that our cells and tissues replenish constantly. After a certain amount of time, nearly all of the cells in a human body will be replaced by the new ones. It also means that most of the matter or the atoms that make up the body will be gone. So, you don't need organ transplantation to replace your body parts.

[@adityaindrapramana4645]

2:26 ship of theseus theory was used on wandavision series finale where white vision recreated by S.W.O.R.D asked a hex vision (technically real vision) recreated by wanda maximoff about every parts of him entirely different while they both have memories of becoming avengers and love for wanda

[@leoncogaming]

You are still you as long as the brain is yours!

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[@buggyhuman]

this episode reminds me of the book "Unwind" by Niel Shusterman

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[@richarddakazo2878]

I'm not sure about the ship of Theseus but when it comes to living humans, your brain is the real core of "you". it stores your memories and personality and the rest of your body exists to sustain it. So as long as enough of your brain is intact for you to remain sentient, you'd always be "You" even if every other non-neural cell in your body was swapped out.

[@WorthyLucas]

The Thesis Ship thingy was talked about on the last episode of WandaVision by the 2 individual Visions.

[@Bigdoglentil]

Ships are defined by their structure/build. Conscience life is defined by individual personality

[@WhiteWoolf-07]

"I request elaboration." "Are you familiar with The Ship of Theseus?"

[@sledger2066]

I think you would still be you as long as your brain isn’t replaced

[@avery4149]

As long as my memory and consciousness is still the same, I don’t care how many parts I am replacing.

[@VoidKing666]

As long as you have your brain, you are you. That’s it. With a ship, it’s different.

[@ultralaggerREV1]

The brain rejecting a body part is like a computer not wanting to read and view the contents of a hard drive and wants it to “format it”

[@JayeSGee]

Seeing the comments made me realize that the concept of The Ship Of Theseus has become so synonymous with WandaVision that its use in a different context almost feels bizarre..

[@MarkBoiMC]

I just love the animation pictures

[@krzysiekbudzisz4572]

"It's easy to cut out the middle man, when he's cut out most of himself."- Stupendium, "Data Stream"

[@prestow]

You're still you, the same way you interact with your car and mobile phone, like appendices that can be upgraded.

[@shuriken05]

For all the flack it gets, the one thing the 2014 Robocop gets right is that one scene when the doctor shows Murphy what is left of him after the explosion. That was horrific.

[@KINGMASKYT]

Am I insane or did the Doctor at the start of the video put 2 hearts into the body?

[@RandomYoutuberGuy]

I remember watching this everday

[@SudiPaddi]

I wanna do a brain transplant with life noggin!

[@jainoree]

neal shusterman's Unwind would love this video

[@RBUKFAN]

0:22 bro you just ripped all the organs out of an elderly person 💀

[@VesselE]

I only want my body parts replaced once modern technology has advanced and I can be a cyborg.

[@yeonkimin1437]

Blocko: Talks about "The Ship of Theseus" Me, a Distractible listener: NO NOT AGAIN-

[@milk_man130]

“Man I hate this body” “Oh I know an idea! Imma put my brain in a other body” The end

[@Enderpig124]

The Ship of theseus is barely comparable. The brain is you, everything else can be replaced and you will still be yourself. if you replace only the brain, then it is no longer you.

[@thewhitemexican588]

What if we could replace our brains with small monkeys smashing buttons on a computer... Would that work life noggin?

[@randomdude4360]

Don't let the ship of Theseus distract you from the fact that whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips.

[@bluberry3297]

well the ship of Theseus doesn’t work on living things bc ur only not you when u don’t memories of you and ur experiences

[@God-ld6ll]

have someone switch places with someone else. now you know.

[@ECL..]

Your body is constantly replacing its cells, you are not the same person or accumulation of matter you were 10 years ago. #DearBlocko

[@trasherhead]

The TV series Altered Carbon deals with this. As long as the software that is your personality, thoughts, memories etc is copied correctly, then the hardware doesn't matter. A thing the ship of thesius doesn't take into account. Unless you add the crew as the "software". Then tye ship can change as much as it wants, the ship would be operated in the same way, though the limitations of how to operate the ship would change. Being moved from an athletic body to a body with Parkinsons wouldn't change the how the software operates, but would give new limitations for what the software could do physically.

[@r.s.334]

A optician friend of mine said "Do know you why Georgie LaForge on Star Trek had the visor? It's because they still haven't figured out how transplant an eye"

[@Manny1897]

This is basically the ship of Theseus

[@Sourbell-YT]

"Ever since I understood the weakness of my flesh"

[@RBUKFAN]

It’s weird to think about, but your body is just a big mech suit being controlled by your brain. 🧠 💥

[@beamngcrasher1897]

I’ve always wondered this to lazy to Google it tough

[@sumedha3004]

I was confused for a whole lotta seconds whether the Nordvpn figure had a moustache or hair

[@---nk4mk]

When my dude was talking about full body transplants. All I could think if was... DIO!!

[@basitnaruto237]

First time im here on schedule🥴

[@powdereyes2210]

The only thing that makes you truly you is your brain But combining or swapping out brains is very complicated to me so I’m just going to stop myself right there

[@ChristianRMaglione]

I was wondering how much of your body could be replaced as I watched Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader

[@dfredankey]

In the future we may perhaps live for extra years due to these ideas

[@tobyklein4060]

As long as you still got the same brain you're still you because that holds your consciousness

[@Generic_Handle4573]

First notification that actually shown up for me in a while

[@lifenoggin]

I'm glad you're here.

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@AlexBrowningPX]

#dearblocko Can you do a segment on Complex PTSD, how it differs from PTSD and BPD, and options those of us who have it to reach out when we need help and get treatment?

[@That1GeckoDude]

#dearblocko why do humans get embarrassed? my frog brain doesn’t understand

[@ultralaggerREV1]

The human consciousness is like the Operating System of the brain and it would take a lot of work for the OS to adjust to the body part

[@SM-ih6dt]

in hollywood you need just a kid and you can replace almost all of your body

[@visoth7791]

2:22 Hey Vsauce, Blocko here!

[@avengerslevelthreat8099]

Is it possible for dinosaurs to actually come back alive? Also I really love your videos

[@Just_another_guuy]

Finally a new video

[@angelicabutterfly1794]

The UnWind series by Neal Shusterman is an excellent read for anyone interested in stuff like this.

[@Im_here170]

I don’t know a arm and a leg in a couple of organs?

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

I'd like to see a more in depth video about the ship of Theseus speaking of the ship of Theseus It's used a lot in cyberpunk stories and to give my own personal opinion I personally think that no matter how much of your body Is replace you are still you as long as you have the same memories personality Etc.

[@adityaindrapramana4645]

You can watch wandavision series finale where white vision fighting hex vision

[@olimpather]

#DearBlocko The Ship wouldn’t be the same. You are disassembling the ship and throw away the parts. If you have the perspective of every single part of the ship theoretically, you can see the original ship being disassemble and being throw away piece by piece while some parts remain.

[@solaraura512]

Thought that was geto suguru in the thumbnail

[@ion_force]

I wonder if instead of optic nerve/eye transplants, we might see fully artificial eyes being made to literally plug into the brain. Maybe we will all become modular computers with a circulatory system made entirely of coolant.

[@mefailing5795]

#DearBlocko For people with D.I.D. and multiple personalities how do their brain patterns change as personalities switch? My friend has DID and has 5 if I remember right, all with very different traits and mental bodies. For example one personality is very angry and is over 10 feet tall and looks like a red demon and another is sort of like a sweet 6 year old child, how would the brain patterns change and indicate a personality taking control at a specific time?

[@Sugardrop50]

Hey, I'm not blocko but I'm someone with DID, so I think I can help! There have been multiple brain MRIs done on this, and the results have found that those with DID have significantly less grey and white matter, as well as smaller hippocampal volume. I'm unsure if there have been scans done on those in the middle of shifting, but I know that brain activity around these regions can vary with alters (Typically less activity around the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus). Despite this being a disorder less diagnosed and often accused of not being a thing at all, there are real biological effects that we can observe.

[@bviptech]

As someone that lost most of his sight from optic nerve damage this is VERY interesting to me

[@titanicbigship]

Point where the brain is no longer mine

[@markmulready565]

Have you heard of the ship of Theseus?

[@cyanorturquoise5989]

1:14 “Over a million tiny never fibers…”

[@user__not__found.exe.]

#DearBlocko How many years is one light year? I know that one light year is about 6 trillion miles, but how long would that take to travel?

[@anttisaarilampi]

Depends on your speed of course, at light speed it would take exactly one year.

[@Manthab]

I’d get those abs if there was a whole body transplant

[@cbrycem]

I dont thinknthe ship of theseus is a fair comparison since it is not able to account for the consciousness of people. The ship could be the body, but you are the captain. You will be you still as long as you still have your thoughts/memories/personality. That's what I believe anyway.

[@daniellaurbacz7936]

I Wish that blocko is a science robot

[@ellesandralady8596]

With nerves and brains 🧠.. and the invention of prosthetics of legs, arms and hands the body would be fine

[@42O-q3p]

Bro idk y i cant just put a mechanical sleeve over my organs and keep em functioning forever

[@Natelovesdogs586]

I’m not going to lie based on the thumbnail I thought he would have done a colab with Mcnasty

[@limred6027]

from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh i felt disgusted

[@vladof_putler]

Laughs in Darth Vader

[@Misto_deVito6009]

I love how the Nordvpn character looks like an erie mouth

[@Misto_deVito6009]

Or a big mustache

[@Luvblax]

Notification Squad wya?

[@lancestryker]

Quick answer to the Ship of Theseus thought experiment: In terms of purity, no, the ship is no longer the same ship. In terms of spirit, yes, the ship is still the same ship. With that in mind, as long as your consciousness and identity of self is still intact, no matter how many transplants you take, you're still you.

[@legendaryspud3462]

Fun fact- You know how your cells don’t live long and when they die they are replaced? That means that you share a absolutely no cells with yourself from a year ago. And you would say you’re still you, wouldn’t you?

[@dragonclaw4159]

#dearblocko: do you think that your editor would go crazy with the editing and do whatever they want because I asked this question?

[@itsanna3118]

#DearBlocko what would happen if you only ate fruits for your whole life? Would you lose weight and be healthy?

[@angelmermaid16]

Did anyone else catch the “Never fibers” instead of nerve fibers lol

[@devonthehedgehog1808]

*CAN I REPLACE MY ARM WITH THE SHOTGUN, BULLET PUNCHING, ROBOTIC ARM FROM ULTRAKILL*

[@Grindhousewetware]

Yes

[@bragg_15]

#DearBlocko what are the correlations between too much money and depression

[@itsyoboibee1529]

#DearBlocko why can some insects, like cockroaches, be decapitated and still function normally? love your videos!

[@alberach]

The cockroach's brain is actually contained within its body, not its head. Therefore, removing its head does not kill it instantly, and the body can continue functioning for awhile. However, without the head, the cockroach cannot see, hear, or eat. Because of that, a headless cockroach usually ends up dying of starvation.

[@MidnightWildspirit]

People are brains in a skeleton mech with meat armor.

[@murphwarships3749]

#DearBlocko, why can we blow air through our ears?