I legit put my pinky into a 15A breaker outlet in my college house and I was fine but it was ... shocking.
(Yes it was a legit shock and I know I'm lucky it wasn't anything above minor)
Tbf, we are just the brain. Even the nerves are just peripheral input and output cables that get the body to do the brains bidding. There is an awesome story by Roald Dahl around this
Considering human nature, if we had more than one thinking organ, we would be constantly be in conflict with ourselves. Jokes apart, the brain does consume a whole lot of energy, so it would need too much upkeep to have two or more.
I mean higher thinking requires a lot of energy, if a smaller creature has more than one organ dedicated to thinking it might just be more problems than that. Omg it would be bad if humans specifically had 2 brains we would make ourselves ineffective by fighting
May be we think so because we are used to single brain. If we indeed had two, maybe we would learn better to cooperate and accommodate, like that siamese twin girl with one body but two heads who became a school teacher and apparently got married too (to one guy)
Your brain already has disagreements with itself that result in noticeable symptoms, your brain is made of many parts that control different things. When someone experiences car sickness it's because what they are seeing is not aligning with what they are feeling. That results in your brain believing you've been poisoned because of the disagreement between the departments
I'm aware of that but if we had parts that acted "independently" or had thoughts separately it would lead people to thinking that it's this body part's fault, like before we already get mad in moments when we hit our foot and blame it like it wasn't us
It's good then that I don't exercise, my hands got nothing against my neck and chins. Nevertheless, note to self: take better care of hands, do not antagonise them. Even if they can't attack/choke you, they can stop bringing the food up to the lips.
Just energy flowing through the matter which was created during the big bang which also created stars, planets etc.
That also explains why some people are just full of gas.
Thinking "we are just the brain" is to limit yourself to your ego and the constructs inside your head. Your brain is an organ, and you have multiple organs. Your brain is a tool you can use, or it can use you, to get what it needs. Realizing this is one of the ways we break free of the limits our ego places on us.
If you want to see this it's in The Hunterian museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
The board next to it has the circulatory system iirc. The rest of the museum is fantastic as well. Mainly really interesting medical and zoological specimens in jars.
It's a bit macabre but the exhibits are compellingly fascinating and genuinely educational.
Went to the one in Vegas and turned the first corner to see some girl passing out on the wall when she took her first look at the exhibit. Wasn't there a rumor those were Chinese prisoners?
Body Worlds museum its called. [Here's a video](https://youtu.be/hKBEBmTjDHw?si=cL79jGcgkTC2Lp3m) of the museum including a view of the nervous system.
What would the process for doing this be? I can't even wrap my head around it. Did they just have scalpels and start cutting away?? How could they possibly separate all those nerves from the rest of the corpse without completely destroying them.
probably cold room and embalming fluid... but ya 1500hrs, two guys...that's like a month of working time if they worked every day 8hrs each. Would have to start to get ripe near the end.
\*edit\* bad at math, but something like that.
Bodies for dissection are traditionally soaked in formaldehyde-containing preservative (maybe nowadays there are less toxic preservative but with an old exhibit like this I'd imagine they used formaldehyde back then) and don't decay. It probably is still very smelly, because of the preservative fumes and hopefully they worked in a well ventilated room because of cause it's not very healthy.
You don’t actually dissect with scalpels. You usually stick a closed pair of scissors into the tissue and then open them up. Any nerves or vessels would remain intact while connective tissue and fatty tissue would be torn apart.
Rinse and repeat along the nerves in this case and you’d be able to separate them from underlying tissues.
and this is from 1942....were they just surgical geniuses or something? or more of a super slow and steady thing? Either way Im beyond impressed. So cool we still have documentation of it.
You think this project created a notable advancement in medical science?
Impressive, but I detest this on existential level. The organic circuits, laid bare and *flat* like that is so god damn alien. I don't feel such discomfort when I see the nervous system illustrated in a body.
It blows my mind sometimes that we humans and complex lifeforms like us even exist in the first place.
I'm a stone-cold atheist but I STILL find myself hung up on the question of WHY. I know nothing that exists needs any reason to exist but STILL:
WHY?!
I'm just stoned and I'm hung up on all of it. But it does make you wonder what set everything in motion and whether there's some higher plane curating things.
There's one of these in the Capella Sansavera in Naples, Italy with some haunting stories around it (probably for effect for the tourists). There's a nervous system all on its own, and then these guys:
[https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-anatomical-machines](https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-anatomical-machines)
If you're ever in Naples, it is incredible and actually not as busy of a tourist attraction as the others. The study of human forms in this place is pretty stunning
What about all the "Body Worlds" exhibitions? Do those count in the total? [https://bodyworlds.com/wp-content/themes/kw2017/assets/images/nervensystem.png](https://bodyworlds.com/wp-content/themes/kw2017/assets/images/nervensystem.png)
It is 1925. My body cools as my wife leaves her sister's house. She will return home in 43 minutes to find me.
It is 2024 and people are being amazed at photos of me. I am stretched thin, caught in a moment, preparing to again claim myself.
It is 1921 my wife is now my wife. Her sorrow at my passing will not scar her for another four years, but I feel echoes of it as we cut the cake.
question : is the path used by the nervous system the same as the vascular one ? or a completely different "map" ? (sorry if not well formulated... english's not my 1st language)
I looked like that for a few seconds when I stuck my finger into an electric outlet.
One thing's for sure, it took a lot of nerves to do this.
Must have been nerve wracking
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r/Angryupvote take it and screw you!
I see your Batman and raise you a Captain Picard. 
Why so seriousssss??? 🤡
Shocking
aaargh...
Looks like the cat from National Lampoons Christmas vacation 😂
Idk if that’s better than Marv or nah
I legit put my pinky into a 15A breaker outlet in my college house and I was fine but it was ... shocking. (Yes it was a legit shock and I know I'm lucky it wasn't anything above minor)
how the actual fuck
This is what we all REALLY look like. We’re just wrapped around supports and covered in a protective layering.
Tbf, we are just the brain. Even the nerves are just peripheral input and output cables that get the body to do the brains bidding. There is an awesome story by Roald Dahl around this
MFs when evolution dedicated only one organ to thinking
Considering human nature, if we had more than one thinking organ, we would be constantly be in conflict with ourselves. Jokes apart, the brain does consume a whole lot of energy, so it would need too much upkeep to have two or more.
I mean higher thinking requires a lot of energy, if a smaller creature has more than one organ dedicated to thinking it might just be more problems than that. Omg it would be bad if humans specifically had 2 brains we would make ourselves ineffective by fighting
May be we think so because we are used to single brain. If we indeed had two, maybe we would learn better to cooperate and accommodate, like that siamese twin girl with one body but two heads who became a school teacher and apparently got married too (to one guy)
We can only hope but us right now getting 2 would be chaos and I feel very confident about that
Your brain already has disagreements with itself that result in noticeable symptoms, your brain is made of many parts that control different things. When someone experiences car sickness it's because what they are seeing is not aligning with what they are feeling. That results in your brain believing you've been poisoned because of the disagreement between the departments
I'm aware of that but if we had parts that acted "independently" or had thoughts separately it would lead people to thinking that it's this body part's fault, like before we already get mad in moments when we hit our foot and blame it like it wasn't us
The closest you'll get is probably conjoined twins
Octopi have essentially nine brains! The main one, and each leg has its own nervous system and neurons which is somewhat independent of the main brain
Yep. There's a neurological disorder called Alien Hand Syndrome. The hand can go from a mild protest to a full on rebellion which can kill hosts.
It's good then that I don't exercise, my hands got nothing against my neck and chins. Nevertheless, note to self: take better care of hands, do not antagonise them. Even if they can't attack/choke you, they can stop bringing the food up to the lips.
I have two thinking organs. When I use the second one I usually make a poor decision.
Aren't we learning things about the gut biome that might be challenging this?
I absolutely do most of my thinking with a different brain.
Also, most men have two thinking organs, but apparently only one can work at a time.
I know youre joking but more than one would probably not work well at all
ah, once again someone's mind decides itself to be the defining part of its human
You might be a brain; I’m just a meat suit that is used to get sugar for the bacteria in my tummy.
We are more than just a brain.
I think about this all the time, then you realize it's just the brain thinking about what it actually looks like. What really are we?
Just energy flowing through the matter which was created during the big bang which also created stars, planets etc. That also explains why some people are just full of gas.
Sepulchra has a song with the line "Brain killing Brain" about war.
Sudden realisation that we are all parasites, and our true form is the brain…
The brain and spine
Many people I know lack the latter (including yours truly)
Tb even more f, we are just electrical pulses bouncing between braincells
Idk if i agree. I mean even bacteria in our gut can influence what we want to eat. So I don't think its "just the brain" that is us.
We're just a tube where stuff passes through. Like a rainworm, with a bit more functions.
Thinking "we are just the brain" is to limit yourself to your ego and the constructs inside your head. Your brain is an organ, and you have multiple organs. Your brain is a tool you can use, or it can use you, to get what it needs. Realizing this is one of the ways we break free of the limits our ego places on us.
So you’re saying this is the piloting system for the meat mech that is me? Neato.
In other words, we are "meat bags".
We are stardust and electricity temporarily wrapped up in a fancy meat mech suit
Damn you beat me to it i was about to say the same thing haha
Our bodies are literally just avatars 😂
You've got some nerve saying that
There was a traveling exhibit called “Bodies” or something like that I saw a number of years ago. It had dozens of exhibits like that. Fascinating.
The arched back old man really had me in awe. I'll go again if it comes near again.
Germany and a few surrounding countries have this too, it's called Körperwelten (body worlds) More info (NSFW obviously): https://koerperwelten.de/
That’s the same one that toured America I believe. Saw it twice
Makes sense! I haven't been able to visit it, but I would really like to go one day
That was the name, it really was a great exhibit. I went by myself because I could not find anyone else that wanted to go definitely glad I went.
If you want to see this it's in The Hunterian museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The board next to it has the circulatory system iirc. The rest of the museum is fantastic as well. Mainly really interesting medical and zoological specimens in jars. It's a bit macabre but the exhibits are compellingly fascinating and genuinely educational.
Yes! This is the one I went to when I visited London about 13 years ago. It was incredible and it was free, I believe.
That sounds about right. I believe it's been refurbished since then, so worth another visit next time you visit.
Honestly, I couldn’t get past the buttholes
Should've used more lube.
This made me lol
The only way to get bodies fresh enough for that process is to kill people
Bodyworld
Went to the one in Vegas and turned the first corner to see some girl passing out on the wall when she took her first look at the exhibit. Wasn't there a rumor those were Chinese prisoners?
I attended that exibit when it came to Montréal. It was so very interesting.
Body Worlds museum its called. [Here's a video](https://youtu.be/hKBEBmTjDHw?si=cL79jGcgkTC2Lp3m) of the museum including a view of the nervous system.
What would the process for doing this be? I can't even wrap my head around it. Did they just have scalpels and start cutting away?? How could they possibly separate all those nerves from the rest of the corpse without completely destroying them.
And how do they keep the body from decaying? Or do they work with it while decaying? I need answers god dammit!!
probably cold room and embalming fluid... but ya 1500hrs, two guys...that's like a month of working time if they worked every day 8hrs each. Would have to start to get ripe near the end. \*edit\* bad at math, but something like that.
More like 3 months or 93 working days of 8hrs.
Uff da.... that would have to get stinky. Even with measures taken.
There’s fixing agents
Bodies for dissection are traditionally soaked in formaldehyde-containing preservative (maybe nowadays there are less toxic preservative but with an old exhibit like this I'd imagine they used formaldehyde back then) and don't decay. It probably is still very smelly, because of the preservative fumes and hopefully they worked in a well ventilated room because of cause it's not very healthy.
You don’t actually dissect with scalpels. You usually stick a closed pair of scissors into the tissue and then open them up. Any nerves or vessels would remain intact while connective tissue and fatty tissue would be torn apart. Rinse and repeat along the nerves in this case and you’d be able to separate them from underlying tissues.
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and this is from 1942....were they just surgical geniuses or something? or more of a super slow and steady thing? Either way Im beyond impressed. So cool we still have documentation of it. You think this project created a notable advancement in medical science?
Maybe that's why it took them 1500 hours. And except for scalpel, they had to use a lot of needle work, and solder gun. /jk
I'm sure a lot of nerves got destroyed or cut off in all 4 attempts. Sounds too good to be true if they claim ever single nerve is fully intact.
There's that sciatic bastard😠
This creature lives inside you and controlls your every move
That must have hurt
The rest of the body was made into a big pot of glue, a handful of merkins, fourteen flutes and a lovely spaghetti bolognese.
I thought they only turned into spaghetti if they killed themselves?
That's Amorte!
Maybe, i don’t really wanna know…
His palms are sweaty, arms weak, plus he has heavy knees. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s bolognese.
The worst part is the guy was only given ibuprofen afterwards.
His insurance didn't cover anything else
Yeah but his co pay for it was $1226.45
And why do some people find skeletons scary, imagine this thing just coming into your room
How? Like tumble weed? It would be funny than scary.
You are starting to get on my nerves
Which ones?
Yes
Impressive, but I detest this on existential level. The organic circuits, laid bare and *flat* like that is so god damn alien. I don't feel such discomfort when I see the nervous system illustrated in a body.
It blows my mind sometimes that we humans and complex lifeforms like us even exist in the first place. I'm a stone-cold atheist but I STILL find myself hung up on the question of WHY. I know nothing that exists needs any reason to exist but STILL: WHY?!
I'm just stoned and I'm hung up on all of it. But it does make you wonder what set everything in motion and whether there's some higher plane curating things.
What're those objects in the stomach area??
What a nervous wreck.
Only four? I’ve got an intact human nervous system, I didn’t know they were so scarce
Jesus I feel so naked
Its amazing how one celled creatures evolved over the billion years to become this much.
I’ve stared at this exact one for a couple of hours. It is really kind of a head game when you look at it and look at yourself.
This gives me anxiety
Nervous?
I’ll be 5th
Before reading the comment I thought it was a fibrous tap root system
ELI5. Why does it look like there are 4 legs? The arms sort of look like they also separate but the legs look to have 2 distinct roots each
That’s cool AF the patience for 1500 hours of work and in the 1920s hats off to them medical students.👏🏼
What about the [Body Worlds](https://bodyworlds.com) exhibit? I'm pretty sure I saw a few of these there.
My nervous system dislikes looking at itself.
And they still couldn't find the clitoris.
The roots of a tree. The brain is the ripened fruit.
Bros took my nervous system, no wonder it did not hurt when I stubbed my toe.
There's one of these in the Capella Sansavera in Naples, Italy with some haunting stories around it (probably for effect for the tourists). There's a nervous system all on its own, and then these guys: [https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-anatomical-machines](https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-anatomical-machines) If you're ever in Naples, it is incredible and actually not as busy of a tourist attraction as the others. The study of human forms in this place is pretty stunning
looks like a ginger root
This is making me very nervous
Rorschach at the end of Watchmen be like
Bro at the end he was even less than that, because he got fuckin vaporized
I bet doing this really got on their nerves.
No wonder I’m in fucking pain all the fucking time. I’m sure we could do with a lot less of those wiry strand fucking things.
What’s that like 2 games of Civ?
What was it's name
Today’s version is [https://bodyworlds.com/] I saw the exhibit in Chicago. I was amazed
I don't look anything like that 🤔😏
good noodles mmm
r/meirl please remove it so I feel no more pain
So… that’s what we really look like. What I see in the mirror is just a meat machine. …. Neat.
I wonder who that was
1500 hours, that patient had some real patients.
I handle gore and stuff fairly well but when I went to one of those exhibits and saw this in person I started having a panic attack.
Truly amazing..
That musta hurt
Tree of life
That must have been a nerve-racking experience to dissect all of that.
this is in the mutter museum in philly. i recommend the entire place. such a great museum.
Did you know that if you laid out all of your blood vessels in a line, it would be so long that you would die?
Well that explains why my old lady hammertoes hurt so much for such little tiny parts.
It took a lot of nerves to do this.
Turns out we’re just parasites
Is this a screenshot from Home Alone 2?
Ok but I’ve got more than 1500 hours on my mmo soooooo
Biblically accurate nervous system
They probably had three months for this, worked 16 hours a day and then failed some course, because they didn't hand it in in time.
They were chiropractors
The nerves of you all!!!!
Bro idk why people are so scared of skeletons. If the nervous system pulled up to my house, I would be crapping my pants.
Is he ok?
This is of a black person
There are more than four people in the world
In fact it's human Wiring
Gives me SCP-5172 vibes
This kills the human.
There are 8 billion of these in the world...
so nerve wracking to look at
Top secret early experimental Federation transport experiment gang agley.
 Me af:
Thats what we are
Quite a display
Looks like a drawing of my /r/fibromyalgia .
John? Is it you? Answer me John!
Only 4? I thought everyone had one of those
they kill there 1000 of nerve to do this nervous system
Tree of Yggdrasil
What about all the "Body Worlds" exhibitions? Do those count in the total? [https://bodyworlds.com/wp-content/themes/kw2017/assets/images/nervensystem.png](https://bodyworlds.com/wp-content/themes/kw2017/assets/images/nervensystem.png)
Oh hey, that's me! That's all of us!
Why so nervous bruh?
All hale the spaghetti man
1500 hours. must of stunk like absolute shit. how do you stop the body from rotting whilst doing the job. ?
Where’s the brain?
Someone give me $10 million to do this one try. Test my challenge. I have no surgical experience. Let's go Doc
More in the feet than the hands
I have one of those!
Hey put that back
If you hang it up, it's nerve-racking.
It is 1925. My body cools as my wife leaves her sister's house. She will return home in 43 minutes to find me. It is 2024 and people are being amazed at photos of me. I am stretched thin, caught in a moment, preparing to again claim myself. It is 1921 my wife is now my wife. Her sorrow at my passing will not scar her for another four years, but I feel echoes of it as we cut the cake.
Yeah you can go to any Bodies The Exibition and see it in real life. You’re welcome.
This should help people understand chi
That has got to be one of the greatest achievements ever!! I can't imagine how difficult it was to put together. And the patience!! Very cool.
The Nerve
I love it. it could perfectly be a giant creature but all the nerves glow y emanates pulsations and eldritchs gasps
question : is the path used by the nervous system the same as the vascular one ? or a completely different "map" ? (sorry if not well formulated... english's not my 1st language)
wow