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Peripheral nervous system has significant plasticity and its reflex archs can produce complex and purposeful behavior without the brain. E.g. cats can walk with
by jampekka 3y ago
Peripheral nervous system has significant plasticity and its reflex archs can produce complex and purposeful behavior without the brain. E.g. cats can walk with their brain removed and famously decapitated chicken do all sorts of stuff.
Octopi don't even have a centralized brain.
- aydyn 3y agoI'm not disputing that. What does that have to do with whether a human brain is inherently intelligent?
- jampekka 3y agoI was replying to this: > First of all, muscle memory is not contained in your muscles or "distributed" throughout your body but is known to reside in your cerebellum and basal ganglia. The nerves going down to your muscles are simply a conduit for actuation, a wire, nothing more.