The Synthetic Nervous System

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I believe the first thing your body will do is hear the phone ring, which is a disruption in activity. So, the sympathetic nervous system will kick into alert. The pupil will dilate to allow the person to see more, the heart rate will increase so the blood will be supplied to areas that needs the glucose and use it for energy in case any muscles need to be contracted for moving.

Then the person look at the phone after hearing a sound, the cones and rods in the retina will send a signal to the super colliculus -that gives you that dear in the head light look because the sound took the person by surprise. Eventually the signal will travel to the occipital lobe to be processed.

Then the neurons in your body, after the signal is processed by

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