Re: ABR article: "the heart does think"

>Is there any scientific basis for the physiological claim below?
>

Well the claim of the article is probably pushing it.

All the same, if you think about it a little,
if you were to cut out the heart and put something artificial
there, it's reasonable to expect that there would be enormous
physiological changes in the body. The heart is a fundamental
organ in the body and there must be many feedback loops that are
built in to respond to stimulii: lack of oxygen, too much oxygen,
anger, exercise, etc. Cut out a major component that exchanges
messages between the brain and the heart in that loop, and
who knows what could happen.
Received on Wed May 18 04:16:07 2005