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ELI5: How come people don’t die during the EMP attacks since our brains work with electricity?
gpt
Our brains don't work on "electricity" like you seem to think, nerves aren't like electrical wires. Think charged chemistry, more like a lemon battery instead of wired circuit.

An EMP works by creating a powerful, changing electromagnetic field. An important concept with electricity is the idea of "induction", where a changing magnetic field will cause a current in a conductor, and a current flowing in a conductor will create a magnetic field. In the case of an EMP the pulse will create strong electrical flow in conductors exposed to it, and that induced current can break delicate electronics that aren't designed for such currents to flow in certain parts of their circuits.

The human body though doesn't have such conductors so the pulse can't induce a current, and our bodies don't have delicate resistors or semiconductors like those that would be damaged in electronics. It would be like sending a lemon through an MRI, it doesn't care about the powerful magnetic fields that would damage or destroy unshielded electronics.