The recent news of the regenerated bladder achievement has gotten me to think of something I briefly considered when the Terry Schaivo hoopla was going on: What if it were possible to regenerate Terry Schaivo's destroyed cerebral cortex? Of course it may be decades before regenrating cerebral matter can actually be done, but if it were possible now, Terry Schaivo might actually have been cured of her disability. At the same time, we have to remember that her previous knowledge and memories won't likely be retained within her new cerebral cortex. Thus, she'd have to gain new knowledge and memories. But then the question of the moment is would Terry Schaivo's new knowlwdge and memeories mean that she'd be a different person? Perhaps so. But since there'd be no way to get the old Terry Schaivo back, we might as well take what we can get.