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Are brains necessary?

Dag Stenberg stenberg at cc.Helsinki.FI
Fri Apr 11 11:30:26 EST 1997


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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