Regeneration-(highest known)-Does it keep it's brain regenerating without being cut off? & If a pie shape was cut out of the head would it fill in?

[ADVANCE]

Highest known regeneration-Does it keep it's brain forever regenerating without being cut off? & If a pie shape was cut out of the head would it fill in?

 

****This is to the highest known form of regeneration in a known animal on earth****

Edited May 11, 2014 by ADVANCE

[Delta1212]

No.

[ADVANCE]

No to both questions?

 

And concerning to about cutting a pie shape out of the head...I thought it would grow back since a cut off head of a flatworm grows back, wouldn't the pie shape cut-out grow back and fill in?

Edited May 12, 2014 by ADVANCE

[Delta1212]

Flatworms don't have brains.

[ADVANCE]

Flatworms don't have brains.

I think they have a small brain in there, anyhow what would happen though if a axolotl or another capable animal or the flatworm's head, got a thin long pie shape cut out? Would it fill in and grow back though?

 

And again to the other question, there is nooo animal that with the highest of this ability on earth that keeps it's brain constantly, or periodically regenerating? The best one on earth really would die of brain ageing/decaying?

 

If your up for this question too, about the immortal jellyfish, when it reverts itself to a colony of little ones, anybody know if, besides the newly created consciousnesses in the new little ones, anybody know if it's consciousness stays going at all times and ends up in a little one? Note: For it's consciousness to always stay going it has to obviously always be going~within more than a few cells, at all times obviously...

[Delta1212]

Flatworms do not have a brain. They have a very rudimentary nervous system that does not include a brain.

 

Jellyfish, likewise, do not have brains. Just about the only thing we know about how consciousness works is that it is rooted in brain activity. Whether a jellyfish even has consciousness is up for debate, and if it does, we've no way to quantify it because, again, no brain for us to measure the activity of.

 

So again, the answer is no. There is no immortal animals with regenerating brains that grow back missing chunks if you chop them out, and even if you were to regenerate brain tissue, large chunks of your personality, all of your memories and various other things that make up "you" are stored in a pattern of neuronal connections that you develop through experiences and is not stored in your DNA.

 

It'd be like keeping a journal and having someone tear out the pages. Even if you replace them with new pages, they're blank. Anything written on those pages that you didn't have written down elsewhere as well is gone.

[sunshaker]

I cannot help but think of "mike" the headless chicken, Who lived for 18-24 months without is head,(which i suppose includes without a brain), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Which makes me think how important is a "brain in lower species"?

What allows the headless/brainless chicken to move and behave like a normal chicken, Is information stored elsewhere?

[Greg H.]

I cannot help but think of "mike" the headless chicken, Who lived for 18-24 months without is head,(which i suppose includes without a brain), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Which makes me think how important is a "brain in lower species"?

What allows the headless/brainless chicken to move and behave like a normal chicken, Is information stored elsewhere?

If you read the entire page, it actually explains it.

 

Specifically, look at the section under Post Motem.

[Delta1212]

I cannot help but think of "mike" the headless chicken, Who lived for 18-24 months without is head,(which i suppose includes without a brain), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Which makes me think how important is a "brain in lower species"?

What allows the headless/brainless chicken to move and behave like a normal chicken, Is information stored elsewhere?

Most of its autonomic functions and reflexes are controlled by the brain stem, which was intact. Basically, just enough of Mike's brain was left after having his head chopped off for the body to keep running on autopilot.

 

Edit: And... didn't look at the link so I guess that section of the article makes my post a bit redundant.

Edited May 12, 2014 by Delta1212

[sunshaker]

I did notice that he still had a brain stem, but i thought the brain stem coordinated motor control signals sent from the brain to the body, So without a brain i thought the brain stem would not have any signals process ,

 

So done a google,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly

 

I did not realize that there are so many people born without brains and only brain stems that have survived for quite a few years.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/16/girl-born-without-brain-is-now-6-years-old/

 

I think this brings me back more to the original topic "Regeneration", What can be done to help these children, Can their brain stem "stem cells" be used to generate enough of a brain to give them a resemblance of live.

 

Or is this when there is a case for man joining to machine the rise of the cyborg.

ICUB,Perhaps alone this line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICub

Found this interesting, Biomaterial gel helps to regenerate brain tissue, http://www.medica-tradefair.com/cipp/md_medica/custom/pub/content,oid,28781/lang,2/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/mcat_id,7797/local_lang,2

 

Edited May 12, 2014 by sunshaker

[ADVANCE]

Ya but I heard if you cut off a flatworms head, it grows back...so you sure cutting a pie shape out won't grow/fill back in? If sure, what is your source-reference?

 

And I'm not sure you got the 2cd question....I meant is there a highest regeneration animal that actually has it's brain just automatically repair inside, and the brain at least would stay perfect? I heard the flatworm, or maybe also lobster or turtle can stay alive forever! Doesn't that mean their brain must be repairing/regenerating inside? I want to know...?

Edited May 12, 2014 by ADVANCE