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Asked by Bethel to Emma W, David M, Chigozie O on 6 Feb 2024.
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Emma Weir answered on 6 Feb 2024:
They’re both pretty important organs as if either of them stopped working you’d be in trouble!
Your brain wouldn’t work if your heart stopped providing it with blood and oxygen, but without your brain you wouldn’t be able to do anything at all. It has hundreds of jobs, compared to the heart which just has to keep beating. So I might be biased as a neuroscientist but I’d say the brain is more important 🤯
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Chigozie Onuba answered on 7 Feb 2024:
The heart and brain are very important part of the human body. Each carry out different function. You basically need both of them to be alive(heart) and function properly(brain)
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David McGonigle answered on 11 Feb 2024:
Hmmm…Well, I guess the heart is (and I’m I neuroscientist). Why? Well, it is possible to be without a brain (actually the cerebral cortex, the crinkly bit at the top) and still have a functioning body, if the heart is pumping. It wouldn’t be a conscious body…but it would work!
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Kirsty L commented on :
Sadly sometimes your brain can be injured so badly it mostly stops working, even if you heart can pump blood, which can lead to being sort-of-dead- called being brain-dead. If that happens you need to have life support machines to keep toy alive, before organ donation for example. So you need your brain to tell your heart to pump blood, and your heart to pump blood to keep the brain healthy, they are pretty important for life together.
Martin M commented on :
Both are pretty important… in fact if both stop working properly you will probably die. However, the essence of you is in your brain and the rest of you body is the life support system to keep that alive. Parts of the brain can stop functioning so you cease to exist but your body machinery can continue to live.
Bruno Silvester L commented on :
both are equally imp