X-Message-Number: 25576 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:16:09 -0500 From: Randolfe Wicker <> Subject: Foreign brain cells in your brain?? Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Brain cells have now been cultured and grown in China. They were taken off a chop stick that someone had stuck into their eye. After being cultured and grown, the brain cells were implanted into another person with a brain injury and apparently took root and even helped the patient to walk again. Now, with all these discussions about "identity", what happens if brain cells taken from another person are injected into your brain? Aren't brain cells part of our personality, part of our essential personal identity? What happens if a very large number of brain cells from another person become part of our brain? I have no idea. However, I find the idea both titillating and somewhat frightening. Cloningly yours, Randolfe Wicker Randolfe H. Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Correspondent, , StemClone Digest, www.StemCloneDigest.com Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org 201-656-3280 (Mornings) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25576