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Dual Brains
Topic Started: Jan 28 2011, 04:07 PM (924 Views)
colddigger
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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As far as I know the ganglia along our own spinal cord already do processing of information for faster responses, knee jerk responses and such, just develop one of these ganglion to do more complex processing and you could develop a second pseudobrain of sorts.
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Holben
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Rumbo a la Victoria

The types of neural matter used are different for brain and spinal cord functions though- though we have both grey and white in the brain, only one type does the response in the ol' cord.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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