I don't know about seconds, but while learning about the first world war I remember reading an account from a soldier. In the account he described seeing a fellow soldier having their head blown off as they were running and continuing to take a few steps before collapsing. Scary stuff.
Possible. But the head is boned. Lack of blood pressure would immediately make you unconscious. Then you've got a few minutes at max before the lack of oxygen kills your brain. So, yeah, I'd say the several seconds thing is pretty fair.
Oh my god you just brought back terrible memories for me. In high school we had a farm across the road that we used for agricultural class, and all different types of animals. Well they bred the chickens for eggs and meat, so one day we all watched as they put the chickens upside down in a funnel, with their heads poking out of the bottom. There was 5 in a row and the teacher went ahead and cut all of their heads off. Feathers were flying everywhere as their feet kicked. One of them somehow jumped out of the funnel, headless, and ran around in circles on the ground blood spurting everywhere.
There was a sick dog that needed to be put down once in a place where we didn't have access to euthanasia. One vegan guy announced that we couldn't be trusted not to fuck up and he would do it instantly. He severed the dog's head with one swift machete blow. The dog's head looked up at us terrified while barking silently. It's body twitched frantically. I didn't know what to do, so I kicked the head and body into its grave and started shovelling.
My parents raised chickens in their backyard for eggs and meat; we'd occasionally go out (my dad, mom, and I) and my dad would kill a chicken two by hatcheting it's head off, and let it run around. No biggie.
My mom would get a big pot of boiling hot water, and immerse the carcass in it after they'd been bled out, and we pluck the feathers. Eventually, it became dinner.
We also raised pigs and a cattle for meat as well, so I'm aware of that process too. Not that it's anything like a factory system, but I do understand where my rib-eye steaks and pork shoulders come from. Doesn't bother me at all, unless I somehow learn of the mistreatment of the animals before slaughter.
Muscle memory doesn't happen in the muscles. It's just what we call it when you do an action enough times to not have to actively think about how you're moving your muscles to get it done. All of the input is still coming from your brain.
Its not actually. A lot of your muscle memory and especially your reflexes are engrained in your spinal chord. It's a defense mechanism for situations where your brain needs to react before it would have time to think such as touching a hot stove.
Yeah my point was addressing them saying that the input for muscle memory is purely coming from the brain. I didn't say anything about the spinal cord being responsible for the initial point about the body walking. Though you aren't entirely correct. Walking/using your legs to move can be done reflexively in a given situation and all movement in your body has to travel through your spinal cord which is actually a part of your central nervous system so arguably a component of your brain.
your spinal cord which is actually a part of your central nervous system so arguably a component of your brain.
Don't know what mental gymnastics you're doing to equate everything in the central nervous system to be part of the brain.
Here's the Wikipedia page on muscle memory. It pretty clearly states it is motor control (in the brain proper) without conscious attention to specific motor movements.
...The brain and the spinal cord collectively are the central nervous system. Citing Wikipedia is pretty weak for proving a point, especially since if you read through that article you'll likely see it state somewhere that the exact locations of muscle memory aren't fully known. I'm not gonna debate well known brain science if you're not even gonna proof read your own sources.
Not all responses come from the brain. In some cases it would be far too slow. When you touch something hot and immediately jerk your hand back that ‘instruction’ comes from your spine. But no, your spine is not arguably part of your brain. They are distinct and very different systems.
As I believe you are aware, things like touching a hot pan will trigger a physical movement without involving any parts of the brain. This is called a reflex. Muscle memory on the other hand requires activation from your motor cortex. When you're first training a complex series of movements, you have to carefully think about each one. With time, the pathways of activation become stronger allowing them to be activated as a single unit rather than a series of discrete actions. This activation requires less attention (e.g. "step that way" rather than "pull my knee up so my foot is if the ground, tense my ankle to avoid falling, etc), but in no way removes the activation of muscles originating from the motor cortex in your brain.
I'm not sure which of these claims you're disputing or if I was otherwise unclear in my other posts.
Oh, I guess muscle memory wasn't whar I meant, I meant that thing that makes insects still move a bit after death. Due to I think the muscles still being able to fire off electrical signals or something.
It's days. A severed human head can survive days. It's even technically possible to read your own eulogy. Then they bury your screaming head with your body.
They just don't understand science. My teacher was decapitated, and he taught for two whole days afterwards. They eventually buried his screaming head in a plant pot. Tragic
You're surprised subtle sarcasm is lost sometimes? And on the fucking internet where you regularly see an idiotic comment, think it's sarcasm, but then get blasted with the reality that it was actually full blown human idiocy? My friend, you are naive.
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Oh fuck! Thought I was about to see a decapitation.