Now I'm gonna be dreaming of brainless wyrm eating brainless babies all night...
Anyway, Rhyfelwyr, brain cells are nerve cells and of course we have nerve cells in our entire body. They're like the internet of the body and the term muscle memory refers to the ability of some of them to remember things (in that case movements) without 100% control by the brain in our head. Whether you can transplant entire memories with a heart seems a bit doubtful, but I wouldn't really say the nerve cells in our body can actually take over functions of the brain. You also can't just rip out your CPU and expect your video card to take over its functions. Now the human body is more flexible than a computer, but not THAT flexible.
I would assume if the heart is beating, the lungs are breathing and the cells of the body do their work, work together as an organism, then it is technically alive. The brain is not necessarily needed for these functions, it can alter them if needed but they also run "on autopilot". Now whether a baby without a brain is capable of eating or performing said adjustments when necessary is another question and may just be the reason they die in the end. It should also be unable to use the eyes, taste, smell, hear etc. since IIRC all these functions are processed in the missing parts of the brain. If any other brain cells try to take these over, they are probably highly defunct. To me it sounds like a living stick of cells that has only autopilot functions and maybe some basic reflexes. If that sounds cruel, yes, I think it is a very cruel fate, if one can call it a fate.
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