Well you could say that, but as a person's physical appearance affects their mental state by quite a bit. They might change personalities, but they would still be the same person technically.
Technically, all interactions with the brain are just chemical responses so the person who received the transplant wouldn't remember the exact reactions just the memories that were in the short-term and non-fractured long-term. Since reactions are stored in the hippocampus part of the brain, which is the most important part IMO, the person would in fact remember all of the reactions in memories that the brain stored. Seems contradictory right? Of course this has yet to be done so all of this is speculation.
Fun side note, this would in fact cause Multiple Personality disorder because of all the fractured and not entirely remembered memories. With the person who received the transplant trying to supplement memories into what was forgotten creating confusion and corrupt memories. Essentially a different version of what happened.
It has to do with the fact that your brain is literally you. You just happen to have the accessories that are everything else. The brain defines the person, and as it would be the same consciousness transferring into a different body, it would be a body transplant.
That would be like saying you took grape jelly and put it in a strawberry jelly jar, that it was a jar transplant and not a jelly transplant. Also I do believe that we are arguing the same point but different names
Like the others; All in the brain
B waters answer is only right if they removed the entire head, not just the brain.
Either way even after success the whole thing is a death bomb where the body can reject the brain/head any time.
Doubtful. If you remove the brain from two bodies and switch them and assuming they both don't die immediately or from complications there still is no reason for any memories to be left in the previous body. I think what you're approaching is something called cellular memory. The idea that your memory, all your experiences could be something that is coded into every cell of your body. If that was the case then it would possible to experience someone else's memories from have a transplant. Any type of transplant could be a catalyst for memories in this scenario.
Fun side note, this would in fact cause Multiple Personality disorder because of all the fractured and not entirely remembered memories. With the person who received the transplant trying to supplement memories into what was forgotten creating confusion and corrupt memories. Essentially a different version of what happened.
B waters answer is only right if they removed the entire head, not just the brain.
Either way even after success the whole thing is a death bomb where the body can reject the brain/head any time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2601548/The-3D-printed-HEART-Scientists-soon-build-replacement-organs-using-patients-cells.html
The body would probably have to a near perfect match to succeed or make an entire new body out of the persons cells which is still something out of our reach.