[grenoire]

People think that the brain is like a micromanager dealing with all parts of the body manually, but it seems like various levels of 'intelligence' in our body is very much decentralised.

[meindnoch]

Reflexes are part of the high school biology curriculum in my country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_arc

[AlecSchueler]

Since what year?

Not asking sarcastically, just curious when schools started moving forwards with these things. The decentralised nature of thinking is something that's only been presented to me with a biological basis in the past few years. Would love to know who was agead of the curve, how so, and why!

[zirgs]

Well, yeah - if the spinal cord is severed - body parts below the injury can't be moved any more, but they don't start to rot off.

[gumby]

The visual system in particular; this was first revealed by the fun and seminal 1958 paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain” from an impressive set of authors: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/gilden/files/2016/04/WhatTheFrogs...

[kelseyfrog]

The humunculean conceptualization of neurology needs to die.

It doesn't add any explanatory power and confuses rather than clarifies. Why not nest humunculae infinitely? No, the brain at all steps, processes information.