Originally, "I Don't Want No Body" was written by Paul Delph, an L.A. musician who started in Cincinnati. The song is one of his best and was a great favorite with people; it had a great beat and you could definitely dance to it. The song also satisfied the Michael Jackson Rule which mandated a kid must be able to cover your song or it will never be a hit. The chords were not difficult so the MJR was satisfied.
The title makes it seems like it's just one more teen angst song but it's only by looking deeper you see 'nobody' is not just one word and the meaning is more like a recent article in the news. (RT: Virtual reality will help world’s first head transplant patient prepare for new body)
Ed: a body transplant? It's bloody heresy. I won't hear of it!
Take it easy, Doctor Casey. We can be reasonably sure the body donor did not need it anymore and we can also be reasonably sure the body donor's soul, if any, is elsewhere. If you're really believing it about Heaven, then the body donor's soul may be many places but one place it ain't is still in the body donor's body.
Don't be so damn provincial or you'll just end up like the neoPeople (i.e. neocons or neolibs) who keep spouting thirty-year-old ideas like they invented them.
Ed: better to be a hippie and spout sixty-year-old ideas like you invented them?
Exactly. Now you're getting it.
Note: Doctor Ben Casey was a famous TV neurosurgeon of the sixties and the show featured Sam Jaffe doing a signature bit in which he drew the symbols on a chalkboard for birth, school, work, death, and infinity. As he drew them, he intoned the words with such deep solemnity.
But those words are a schematic horror! If that's all there is then, fuck it, I'll take my chances with infinity now. In fact, these were the sixties so many were more than happy to try infinity now.
Tip: infinity was great. Lotta stars.
Ed: there is no infinity now because politicians took it?
You're really starting to get this!
Here at the Rockhouse, the only moral question is whether the surgeons can really do it. If it doesn't then your live test subject will spend the rest of his existence in a jar. The idea giving the chief surgeon confidence is a scalpel of some sort which is radically sharper than others and which therefore will permit severing the spinal cord with such precision that it can be reconnected to the new body.
We're thinking if that surgical team really does have good enough tools then they should be able to do it. While you're doubting, consider that Dr Denton Cooley died today at ninety-six and he was the chief surgeon who performed the first artificial heart transplant into a human in Dallas in the early sixties. (Updated to add 'artificial' since Christian Barnard was the first.)
Yah, that same guy was still alive until today. How about that for incredible. (WIKI: Denton Cooley)
Just imagine the pounding he must have taken before he tried that stunt.
Sooner or later they're going to do it and today's Dr Casey wants that to happen sooner because this goes to more than connection to a donor human body. After that surgery, we will have the capability to go full-out cyborg and let's build some Terminators. All we need is that brain and now we can connect it to anything.
When the topic opens with removing a test subject's head, you've got to expect some weird but that was only the opening in making Terminator killers.
Maybe you ask where they get the donor brains for the Terminators since that person presumably gave up a perfectly serviceable body to become a Terminator so what becomes of the ex-body?
Ed: I never thought of that.
See, that's why you need to keep the Rockhouse around.
How about if we put the ex-body into the fridge. Our hero joins the all-volunteer Terminator brigade and his ex-body goes into the fridge for the duration. At the end of his term of enlistment, they stick his head back on the ex-body and everything is hunky dory again except, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he has an overwhelming urge to screw women in maid uniforms.
Ed: they said you're crazy but I wasn't sure.
Do be sure of it but that doesn't change the fact it will happen at some point and why not. No-one gives a second thought to one of Denton Cooley's heart transplants anymore; the only question to most is how soon can I get one.
Ed: people will take up smoking just because they think it may stop richies from hijacking their bodies.
I've been onto that for years. Got a light?
The title makes it seems like it's just one more teen angst song but it's only by looking deeper you see 'nobody' is not just one word and the meaning is more like a recent article in the news. (RT: Virtual reality will help world’s first head transplant patient prepare for new body)
Ed: a body transplant? It's bloody heresy. I won't hear of it!
Take it easy, Doctor Casey. We can be reasonably sure the body donor did not need it anymore and we can also be reasonably sure the body donor's soul, if any, is elsewhere. If you're really believing it about Heaven, then the body donor's soul may be many places but one place it ain't is still in the body donor's body.
Don't be so damn provincial or you'll just end up like the neoPeople (i.e. neocons or neolibs) who keep spouting thirty-year-old ideas like they invented them.
Ed: better to be a hippie and spout sixty-year-old ideas like you invented them?
Exactly. Now you're getting it.
Note: Doctor Ben Casey was a famous TV neurosurgeon of the sixties and the show featured Sam Jaffe doing a signature bit in which he drew the symbols on a chalkboard for birth, school, work, death, and infinity. As he drew them, he intoned the words with such deep solemnity.
But those words are a schematic horror! If that's all there is then, fuck it, I'll take my chances with infinity now. In fact, these were the sixties so many were more than happy to try infinity now.
Tip: infinity was great. Lotta stars.
Ed: there is no infinity now because politicians took it?
You're really starting to get this!
Here at the Rockhouse, the only moral question is whether the surgeons can really do it. If it doesn't then your live test subject will spend the rest of his existence in a jar. The idea giving the chief surgeon confidence is a scalpel of some sort which is radically sharper than others and which therefore will permit severing the spinal cord with such precision that it can be reconnected to the new body.
We're thinking if that surgical team really does have good enough tools then they should be able to do it. While you're doubting, consider that Dr Denton Cooley died today at ninety-six and he was the chief surgeon who performed the first artificial heart transplant into a human in Dallas in the early sixties. (Updated to add 'artificial' since Christian Barnard was the first.)
Yah, that same guy was still alive until today. How about that for incredible. (WIKI: Denton Cooley)
Just imagine the pounding he must have taken before he tried that stunt.
Sooner or later they're going to do it and today's Dr Casey wants that to happen sooner because this goes to more than connection to a donor human body. After that surgery, we will have the capability to go full-out cyborg and let's build some Terminators. All we need is that brain and now we can connect it to anything.
When the topic opens with removing a test subject's head, you've got to expect some weird but that was only the opening in making Terminator killers.
Maybe you ask where they get the donor brains for the Terminators since that person presumably gave up a perfectly serviceable body to become a Terminator so what becomes of the ex-body?
Ed: I never thought of that.
See, that's why you need to keep the Rockhouse around.
How about if we put the ex-body into the fridge. Our hero joins the all-volunteer Terminator brigade and his ex-body goes into the fridge for the duration. At the end of his term of enlistment, they stick his head back on the ex-body and everything is hunky dory again except, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he has an overwhelming urge to screw women in maid uniforms.
Ed: they said you're crazy but I wasn't sure.
Do be sure of it but that doesn't change the fact it will happen at some point and why not. No-one gives a second thought to one of Denton Cooley's heart transplants anymore; the only question to most is how soon can I get one.
Ed: people will take up smoking just because they think it may stop richies from hijacking their bodies.
I've been onto that for years. Got a light?
2 comments:
I thought the first heart ttansplant was Barnard in South Africa
Whoops - must look.
Ah, Cooley was first artificial heart and Barnard was well before that with the first real one.
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