Guest says unnamed specialists told him a severed spinal cord should cause near-instant collapse

What was said

"Look, man. All the science is that once that connection's severed, you have about a tenth, maybe a tenth and a half of a second before every muscle in your body goes flaccid."

The guest says an unnamed neurosurgeon and a professor told him that if the cervical spinal cord were severed, a person would lose muscle tone almost immediately. He uses that assertion to question whether publicly discussed footage and posture are consistent with an account describing the spinal cord as “traumatically absent”, and he speculates about alternative mechanisms, including an electrical shock.