[eli5] Why can’t we control our body, other than using specific muscles?

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Why I(me, awareness) can’t send signals to my body to create or destroy an organ, but can use muscles? (Both are electric signals)

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You have both involuntary and voluntary nerves and muscles. Your heart is involuntary, and doesn’t require conscious thought to keep beating. Your lungs can switch back and forth between both! As to why? Well, it’d be pretty inconvenient if you simply died because you forgot to make your heart pump. Or if you stopped breathing because you stopped paying attention to it.

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