Backbone controller from your Holy roller

Tony Funderburk · Sep 23, 2026

If you could take it out and look at it, your spinal cord would look something like an electrical cord with a bunch of little tentacles. In fact, they’ve probably used a spinal cord as inspiration for a science fiction character or two. I don’t know of one, personally. But it wouldn’t surprise me. Your spinal cord is your backbone controller. But that’s oversimplifying it.

Sure, it’s a backbone controller, but it controls a lot more, too.

But the ironic thing about an incredibly designed backbone controller is that many people, especially politicians, don’t…