Wouldn’t the brain regenerate completely? That is if the cranium is split.
The premise for my thought experiment was, that every bone was intact, and they were just separated at the connecting tissue.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously. Actually that would answer the original question on the removal of external sexual organs. I mean, cut off the balls and there are no balls to regenerate from. Remove the penis and there’s no cavernous tissue etc.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously.
I disagree that there “no point” if destroying the brain (not the eyes) is death.
I disagree that any part has to be able to regenerate, we lose cells all the time, and being able to cut off a toe and create a new person is, to me, a very different power from regeneration.
I agree that regeneration can create tissue types that are not present. The edges of the regeneration are probably the stem-iest of the stem cells and capable of “becoming” any other cell.
I think the “person” of Wolverine is most strongly embodied in the physical “shape” of the brain created through experience. New brain matter would would like not “contain” a Wolverine (at least initially). Parts that were only bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc. might regenerate, but the don’t “contain” a Wolverine to grow into. But, we also know there are (at least) two thinking things inside each brain, one in each hemisphere, so I can imagine if the Wolverine brain is separated we might get multiple Wolverines – or we might get a Wolverine and some other things.
Wouldn’t the brain regenerate completely? That is if the cranium is split.
The premise for my thought experiment was, that every bone was intact, and they were just separated at the connecting tissue.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously. Actually that would answer the original question on the removal of external sexual organs. I mean, cut off the balls and there are no balls to regenerate from. Remove the penis and there’s no cavernous tissue etc.
I disagree that there “no point” if destroying the brain (not the eyes) is death.
I disagree that any part has to be able to regenerate, we lose cells all the time, and being able to cut off a toe and create a new person is, to me, a very different power from regeneration.
I agree that regeneration can create tissue types that are not present. The edges of the regeneration are probably the stem-iest of the stem cells and capable of “becoming” any other cell.
I think the “person” of Wolverine is most strongly embodied in the physical “shape” of the brain created through experience. New brain matter would would like not “contain” a Wolverine (at least initially). Parts that were only bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc. might regenerate, but the don’t “contain” a Wolverine to grow into. But, we also know there are (at least) two thinking things inside each brain, one in each hemisphere, so I can imagine if the Wolverine brain is separated we might get multiple Wolverines – or we might get a Wolverine and some other things.