but what if the spinal cord is cut, like when you have a SCI? your heart is still beating then... while your brain can't send signals through the spinal cord.
but what if the spinal cord is cut, like when you have a SCI? your heart is still beating then... while your brain can't send signals through the spinal cord.
You mean like when people break their necks and are either paralyzed (in instances of only one or sometimes two portions of the nerve being severed) or they die (in instances in which the entire spinal cord is severed). That's what happens when you sever the spinal cord like in an SCI.