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Your stomach prefers some stimulus over another, would you say your guts are conscious? What about other organs like the heart (beating fast, beating slow)?
by ralfd 10y ago
Your stomach prefers some stimulus over another, would you say your guts are conscious? What about other organs like the heart (beating fast, beating slow)?
- otoburb 10y agoThe gut is often called "the second brain" because the 500 million gut neurons that form the enteric nervous system are capable of autonomous function.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system