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I don't know if you could consider what the AV node in the heart does as "processing". It's more like a clock, to my understanding.
by MPSimmons 23d ago
I don't know if you could consider what the AV node in the heart does as "processing". It's more like a clock, to my understanding.
- VorpalWay 23d agoI'm not a biologist or in a medical field at all, but surely the fact that the heart rate goes up if you exercise means there is some form of feedback loop (which to me sounds like a rudimentary form of processing).
- MPSimmons 23d agoWeirdly, this is controlled by the brain as part of the sympathetic nervous system: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23262-sympathetic-nervous-system-sns-fight-or-flight https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23262-sympathetic...