Getting your eyes replaced

There's quite the difference between the emotional after-effects and life-style changes that follow heart replacement surgery and 'personality changes'. Waking up a different person following surgery that doesn't involve the brain is a psychological or psychosomatic side-effect. Having a change of heart in the metaphorical sense is neither ''If' the dead were real, seeing them would not be a disorder but rather a literal 6th sense I suppose. But the dead are not real, and if you see them there is something wrong with you.

I was referring to the significant number of cases where recipients of heart donations have taken on characteristics of the donors, or at least personality traits they didn't have before. These theory was given some credence by the discovery of a kind of 'brain' (neural tissue) located in the heart.

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I don't think that is real, in the sense that I'm not denying that those people are having the experiences they report, but rather that the explanation "the heart is capable of storing memories/personality traits in a little side brain" is extremely unlikely.

I cannot discount the possibility entirely of course, but until there's some sufficient evidence, that notion is pseudo-science at best.

That theory sounds like the I, Robot movie. I don't think there is enough neural tissue in a heart to make a noticeable impact on one's personality.

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I do think it has more to do with the very human tendency to see patterns in chaos. People change their habits after a brush with death. One of these habit changes matches up with something their donor liked. Donee learns about it, attributes it to transplanted organ.

"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic

I believe it may be some form of survivor's guilt. Somebody's dead and a piece of them lives on inside you (so you may live). I can easily imagine that such a thought has an effect on a person.

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Give me new eyes and a new spinal column. Everything else will be just for fun if I got anything like that. But honestly, a new spine alone would make my life so rewarding, I wouldn't be so selfish as to push my luck.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

I wouldn't mind Red Eyes, Take Warning, myself. My glasses are a PITA anyway.

I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.