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Topic	Remember that guy that wanted to perform the first human head transplant?
_AdjI_ 11/19/17 10:02:52 PM #22:	Sahuagin posted... it's not like the blue wire connects to the eyes, and the red wire connects to the arms or something. It kind of is, actually. The spinal cord is not a continuous mass of nerve tissue. It's a bundle of a very large number of individual nerves, which branch off at the appropriate points to innervate the target tissues. The arrangement of those nerves relative to each other is not identical from person to person, so the nerves coming from the head might not end up attaching to the correct nerves in the spinal cord. which could result in some very odd and unpleasant effects (including, as you mentioned, the autonomic nervous system failing to connect to the involuntary processes that are necessary for life). <cite>_AdjI_ posted [p:890713460] in Remember t... [t:76004230]...</cite> <quote><cite>Sahuagin posted...</cite> <quote> it's not like the blue wire connects to the eyes, and the red wire connects to the arms or something.</quote> It kind of is, actually. The spinal cord is not a continuous mass of nerve tissue. It's a bundle of a very large number of individual nerves, which branch off at the appropriate points to innervate the target tissues. The arrangement of those nerves relative to each other is not identical from person to person, so the nerves coming from the head might not end up attaching to the correct nerves in the spinal cord. which could result in some very odd and unpleasant effects (including, as you mentioned, the autonomic nervous system failing to connect to the involuntary processes that are necessary for life).</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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