Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
At a glance
Key signals
38% cross fields · reaches 7 more
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physiology
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations 2
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
Enables · leads to
Nervous systemenablesHomeostasisEstablished
nervous system enables homeostasis.
Mechanism: The nervous system enables homeostasis: it senses change and sends fast signals that adjust the body to keep its internal state steady.
- Biology 2e (OpenStax) (2018) verified
System context
Nervous systemis part ofOrganEstablished
Nervous System is a part of Organ.
Neural pathwayis part ofNervous systemEstablished
Pathways wire the nervous system.
Mechanism: Chains of neurons form dedicated routes that carry each sensation, thought and command.
Neuronis part ofNervous systemEstablished
neuron is part of nervous system.
Mechanism: A neuron is the signalling unit of the nervous system: it carries electrical impulses and passes them to the next cell at a synapse.
- Wikidata verifiedmoderate evidence
Peripheral Nerveis part ofNervous systemEstablished
Peripheral Nerve is a part of Nervous System.
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
Removing this node severs the only sampled structural route between Mental disorder and Neural pathway — a non-redundant bridge here.
structural · Structural removal simulation — not a historical or causal counterfactual.
38% of its relationships cross field boundaries, reaching 7 other disciplines — unusual in a discipline where most concepts stay within their field.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Directly enables 1 concept; following enables/causes relations, 1 concept is downstream across 4 disciplines.
structural · Follows only enables/causes dependency edges — not general relatedness.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 8 of 8 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
cross-field
5 within-field, 3 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Strengths
- Cross-disciplinary connector — 38% of its relationships cross field boundaries. structural
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- Non-redundant bridge — removing it severs a sampled route between neighbouring clusters. structural
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Dependency radial
What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Through this lens it connects to Neuron and Homeostasis.
Through this lens it connects to Neuron and Cognitive neuroscience.
Through this lens it connects to Organ and Peripheral Nerve.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Networks48 disciplines · 35 concepts
Concepts
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Mental models at work here
- Connects 8 other ideas across 4 disciplines.
- A cross-disciplinary bridge — its connections reach into 7 other fields.
- Most of its connections are of the “Kind & structure” kind.
- It exercises 1 reusable thinking pattern.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
- Wikidata verifiedmoderate evidence
- Biology 2e (OpenStax) (2018) verified