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| Topic | Remember that guy that wanted to perform the first human head transplant? |
| Sahuagin 11/19/17 10:30:02 PM #25: | _AdjI_ posted... 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). it's more organic that you're making it sound. yes, it's a bundle, and some parts are communicating signals for one thing and some parts are communicating signals for others, but it's not so distinct that you could literally hook up the arms to the eyes. (the eyes aren't even in your spinal cord anyway). it's not like, oops, we wired your arms backwards, it's like, oops, you're having massive seizures and convulsions, your heart is not beating, and your lungs are not working. gee I wonder why, maybe it's because you're a corpse from the neck down? --- The truth basks in scrutiny. http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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