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  A rat had basically no brain. But it could still see, hear, smell, and feel.

  

  One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris’s lab was scanning the brains of very old rats when he found that one could see, hear, smell, and feel just like the other rats, but it was walking around with basically no brain—and likely had been since birth.

  “One of the things I always get a kick out of is the hubris that we have about how highly organized our brain is—and how complex it is,” Ferris says. “We’ve really focused so much attention on the cortex, and here you have these cases where you can almost eliminate the cortex—large portions of it—and it’s not making a heck of a lot of difference.”

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  • The stomach is part of the brain, iircPhrenological
  • Has long the rat got his penis, he's good.ApeRobot
  • Gut > nervous system > brain
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  • There are humans like this too.monospaced

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