From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2025-03-16, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Neurologists tell us that we have a brain in our guts;   
   >> quite an extensive neuronal network that handles   
   >> digestion. Our hearts also have their neurons.   
   >> And then there's muscle-memory which comes into play   
   >> with bike-riding, playing piano or guitar, swimming etc.   
   >> What about OCD? People feel the need to perform some ritual   
   >> counting or wiping; as if to satisfy some need of which   
   >> they're not conscious.   
   >>   
   >> All this makes me wonder if a person is really dead if you   
   >> cut off his head.  Chickens can sometimes run around for   
   >> minutes after decapitation. This one survived 18 months;   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken   
   >   
   > The internet cuts peoples' heads off on a regular basis,   
   > leaving people running around spewing liberal nonsense   
   > between screams of "HITLER!" and "FASCIST!"....   
   >   
      
   Well, I have a head to cut off.   
    From your posts, I gather that you don't.   
   Maybe that's got its benefits. Your lonely isolation in your ivory tower   
   safeguards you from the natural shocks that flesh is heir unto.   
      
   Ed   
      
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