#muscle control

Beach encounter

Actual vore action recorded on webcam! Devouring prey again for nourishment.

Inspiring comment...

"It's so weird to see a Kurzgesagt video on a subject I'm an expert in... Which is to say, all that stuff they say about how the brain controls your muscles for walking is actually WAAAAAAY more complicated than that. In reality, those automatic systems that catch you when you trip on the banana peel never shut off. They're always on, and your brain is constantly monitoring and selectively suppressing them to coordinate even normal walking.

Without your brain those systems will keep running on their own to a degree independent even of what your inner ear is doing. We've stimulated these systems in people with spinal cord injury, and they can still control their muscles to help maintain balance with no connection to the brain at all. This is a big reason why you don't look at your feet yet can still walk. That system is itself a set of massive electrochemical subsystems that interact and collectively stimulate each other in a way that, if we dedicate hundreds of computer hours to it, we can just barely understand a system of two muscles. Oh, and if we independently optimize the way those muscles contract to spend as little energy as possible walking, again blowing hundreds of computation hours on simplified models that still make very large equations, we wind up with...the exact same results as we get doing motion capture on healthy people walking.

Having a little fun with Photoshop and my gif builder. Here is a different approach for bicep muscle control.