A heart transplant changes a person's attitude?

@lady1993 (27224)
Philippines
April 11, 2012 4:21am CST
My mom's been watching this show "Hiram na Puso" (Borrowed Heart) and after the protagonist got the heart, her attitude changed and she even said some things only the donor would say, she got the same interests and likes too. That is just so wrong, the heart doesn't do anything to person's attitude right? It is some part of the brain that tells us how to act...
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
18 Apr 12
I also don't believe in that. There's no scientific basis for it. A heart is just an organ for pumping blood. It's just a romanticized misconception that our feelings come from our heart. I also believe that whatever we feel comes from our brain and from the hormones our glands secrete. That's why they say TV dramas are just products of imagination.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
11 Apr 12
I don't know if your discussion was about something that really happened or not, but I do know that many times people who receive transplants of any human kind also seem to receive things that we nowadays would say only come from the brain. But I think in the future there will be much more study done on this subject and with what we are now learning about energy which we have called life force is opening doors we never knew where there. What a wonderful time to be alive.
• Philippines
11 Apr 12
I don't think that the situation you mentioned is realistically possible. I think this is just a plot scheme in the story to create some interest in the viewers. I have never heard of a transparent that actually embodies the person who had that organ before. Even with a brain transplant (I don't think that's even possible). I guess it is just one of those shows that build on something that is possible but not necessarily true.
• Philippines
11 Apr 12
I don't believe with that show too, That kind of plot is not new to me. It's just another cliche. Out of my curiosity with that freaking show, YES. It can changes a person's attitude,Not totally but only a part of it. The one who controls our feelings is the "hypothalamus". There is a part in our heart that can retain emotions.