It's a wierd question I know, but yesterday I was wondering what would happen if you had two people joined together via their nerves and one of them was stung by a wasp. Would they both feel it?
2006-08-26 01:05:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
If the right nerves were connected, and if the nerurotranmsitters were compatible then yes.
2006-08-26 01:09:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly, it woud depend on how you "joined" them.
Nerve impulses travel in a single direction. The dendrites recieve the signal and pass it along through the axon to the synaptic terminals, where it is passed to another neuron, or effector. If you connected them end to end, it would be dendrite to dendrite, and there would be no passage of signal (although it's all so small they'd likely both be stimulated). But if you connected the dendrite of one person to the synaptic terminals of another person, then you could pass along a signal.
However, in order for that person to feel a wasp sting, the nerves would have to be connected in the exact same places in both people. If you connected a sensory nerve in the forearm of person A to a sensory nerve in the leg of person B, and then unleased a wasp on person A, person B would feel it a if it happened in their leg. The only way to complete connect people would require them to occupy the same space at the same time, then you have some pesky laws of physics to work out.
But an interesting question, and a good thought process!
2006-08-26 15:24:15 · answer #2 · answered by lizettadf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. That's what nerves are all about.
There are many times, I'd want to share my nerve endings with my child, so I could find where it hurts. A doctor plugging into your nerve endings with a "variable pain" control would have a great advantage to diagnose a problem. Not to mention what a husband and wife could share.
2006-08-26 08:10:00 · answer #3 · answered by MikeQuestions 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not weird at all.
I see three options here:
1. You would both feel it
2. The one connected and not stung would feel it, or
3. The one stung would feel it and the connected would not
or
4. If they are both allergic to wasp bites,
they're both dead meat!
2006-08-26 08:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
imagine this keyboard is attached directly to another keyboard; where's the computer? if my nerves are attached to your nerves, where's the brain to tell us we're one. does my right hand know what my left hand is doing?
does a siamese twin get a headache when the other twin does? i don't think so, but the are certainly sharing nerves
2006-08-29 20:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by soobee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no coz their nerve endings aren't connected to your brain and anyway nerve endings are so tiny you would find it hard to join them right on the end
2006-08-26 13:01:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so..
But maybe if they were connected to the same spinal cord then maybe yes..
strange Q, but we wonder, thats we do :)
2006-08-26 08:08:10 · answer #7 · answered by chilla-z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so.
Pain is registered by the brain.
Would you join them also?
2006-08-26 08:08:45 · answer #8 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which brain they were connected to.
2006-08-26 08:07:38 · answer #9 · answered by Sherlock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depending on which way they were routed, say their hand to your brain, yes you would feel their pain- if it were routed the other way they would feel yours.
2006-08-26 08:14:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋