Brain cells in the in the abdomen help form the gut-brain connection

There's the question of top-down processing versus bottom-up processing. Are our brains the CPU where all the signals are received and processed? Or perhaps do some of our organs process some of the signals?

In my opinion, our organs do a bit of processing before sending to the brain.

my gut feeling is that there's something to this

the whole enteric brain idea, has been around for a while, and my understanding is that there are neural "nodes" conected around the abdomen that collectivly have the same number of nuerons as a cat

Reflexes don't need to travel to the brain.