In bionet.neuroscience Silvano D'Orazio <silvano at iprolink.ch> wrote:
> Measurments of reaction times of masters in martial arts show that the
> brain would be far to slow to calculate a response and to proceed it.
I doubt the evidence, until presented.
> At least there must be supplementary centres independent from the
> brain which provide fast information processing in the humen
> physiological system.
Very fast reflexes are certainly processed at a spinal level, but if
visual information is involved, the brain must surely be involved.
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