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They Transfer signals from the various places in your body to your brain to process and then to fire a signal back for them to shock the muscles into movement, without nerve signals you cant walk, which is why if you break your spine (the central nervos system) you are most likely to be dead from the waist down, or from the chin down depending where you break it.

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