I had a related questions which may be of import for neuros. I heard that a significant part of our nervous system lies in the guts, and is sometimes called “the second brain” in jest. As another example, I’m an amateur musician, and I’m a bit worried that semi-automatic processing of finger motion may lie on nervous ganglia well outside my main brain, closer to my fingers (which may be necessary to play impossible pieces while smiling —no, I’m not that good). It would be a chore to learn basic movements again.
My question is, do we have any evidence about whether important information that cannot be recovered from stem cells, may lie outside our skull? (Which is not the same as saying the brain holds most such information.) Stated a bit differently, do we have reasons to think that 1.000 fidelity for neuros is impossible, even in principle?
I had a related questions which may be of import for neuros. I heard that a significant part of our nervous system lies in the guts, and is sometimes called “the second brain” in jest. As another example, I’m an amateur musician, and I’m a bit worried that semi-automatic processing of finger motion may lie on nervous ganglia well outside my main brain, closer to my fingers (which may be necessary to play impossible pieces while smiling —no, I’m not that good). It would be a chore to learn basic movements again.
My question is, do we have any evidence about whether important information that cannot be recovered from stem cells, may lie outside our skull? (Which is not the same as saying the brain holds most such information.) Stated a bit differently, do we have reasons to think that 1.000 fidelity for neuros is impossible, even in principle?