• Question: Whats the most important organ

    Asked by Emily to Craig, Devon, Marta, Natalie, Nicholas on 7 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by 893rgah46, Daniel Mackley, ellie_eustace.
    • Photo: Craig O'Hare

      Craig O'Hare answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      This is a very tricky one to answer!

      As much as I would love to say that it’s skin, I think if we talk on a very basic level it is probably either the heart or the brain. The heart is vital, we need it to pump blood to keep the cells in our bodies fed with oxygen and nutrients. The brain is equally important as it regulates how fast the heart beats and allows us to move through are nervous systems. Without a brain we couldn’t move and without a heart our cells would starve and suffocate!

    • Photo: Marta Varela

      Marta Varela answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Hi Emily.

      I would say it’s the brain. If it is damaged, even if you can artificially keep the other organs working with the help of support machines, you say that person is “brain dead” and know they will never recover.

      In a more philosophical view, it is also where your knowledge and your unique responses to stimuli are encoded, so I guess it is where your uniqueness is…

      Would you agree with this?

    • Photo: Nicholas Younger

      Nicholas Younger answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      I think the brain…but it’s my brain telling me to think that…so I don’t know what to believe…

    • Photo: Natalie Doig

      Natalie Doig answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      Definitely the brain Emily!

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