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That's cool about the limbs moving before the signal gets to them, I'll have to look into that, where's that from? The nervous system is really cool, I've been thinking of studiyng it. I think it's kinesiology or reflexology or something...
There is reference of this phenomenom in "Molecules of Emotion", by Candace Pert,Ph.D.- She explains that the nervous system isn't just neurons shooting electrical impulses that start in the brain and end in the target area, there is a second chemical pathway in the body that is part of the nervous system in which the "target area" sends chemical messengers (neurotransmitters-despite their name they are produced all over the body and are sometimes sent to the brain which in turn does the electrical impulse thing- so that the whole body is simultaneously making decisions about all kinds of things, instead of exclusively the brain telling it what to do. (my wording-CF.)
a small quote:
[quote:3gznjl0e]"...your brain ia extremely well integrated with the rest of your body at a molecular level, so much so that the term
mobile brain is an apt description of the psychosomatic network through which intelligent information travels from one system to another. Every one of the zones, or systems, of the network-the neural, the hormonal, the gastrointestinal, and the immune-is set up to communicate with one another, via peptides and messenger-specific peptide receptors. Every second, a massive information exchange is occurring in your body."-
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