Why do aircraft cockpits have so many buttons and switches? What do all those actually control and are they all used?

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Why do aircraft cockpits have so many buttons and switches? What do all those actually control and are they all used?

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What everyone else has said, but also: a fair number of the switches are circuit breakers, especially on airliners. And there can be a lot of circuits on an airliner.

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