and i oppose the five day waiting period on doomsday devices for mad scientists...

this article is too bizarre for me to believe as outright fact, but i'm optimistic when it comes to mad science. the short of it is that the russians (and an american) meddled in brain and/or head transplants.

the article eventually gets past the mad science part (which is also cool) and tackles some of those mind-body-identity issues that make the whole idea so compelling in the first place. though since it's a daily paper, and using "brian urlacher doling out career ending injuries to receivers going high over the middle" as my standard of serious philosophic tackling, this is more of a peewee league bump-into-eachother-and-fall-down.

the way i see it, all those gushy internal organs are abstractions for most of us. we don't see or touch them, though we have ideas about how they work and how they effect our health. so when i get my spleen or something transplanted, i don't crap myself thinking, my god, i'm not the same person anymore. but if you had your head transplanted onto another body, you'd likely think that you aren't entirely yourself. you probably think the same sorts of things, but it'd be complicated. as far as most of us are concerned, identity and personhood don't end when you die. if we thought so, why would we bother with funerals and whatnot?

anyway, two headed dogs. in the future, maybe two headed-dog brains, in jars.