6- The human body
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We,The People, are not happy
I am feeling like a detective looking for clues. What is happening to humans is that they are trying to get out of their jail and their jail is their own body. Could that explain the changes of the last 200 years that my boss was talking about?
Their body is way above their head -)
At first, the human body looks rather simple: one trunk, one head, two legs and two arms. This is a very common template that has been used by many animals before them. There is also something particular to everyone. It is their face where you can find a lot of information that differentiates one individual from another (like their social security number). In short, a human body belongs to a species, but that species is made up of many distinct individuals.
Unfortunately, they don’t even know what is going on inside their own body. They don’t know all the chemistry necessary to digest a simple meal. They don’t know what happens for 8 hours a day while they are asleep. It is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved. Remove 75% of a liver and the body will completely rebuild the whole liver.
Starfish can regenerate their body. Sharks continually shed their teeth.
Everything gets much more complicated when you investigate what is under their skin.
Their body is way above their head! It is much more complicated than anything a human brain can conceive:
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30000 to 50000 different proteins
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60000 different kinds of toxins
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Between 75000 and 100000 genes
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More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in their mouth alone.
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10 million different types of blood cells
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The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.
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Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups and react with other groups.
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Every second their body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
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The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000.
It is so complicated that they had to divide their ‘medicine’ into more than 100 different specialties such as Urology – Neurology – Cardiology – Ophthalmology – Pathology…. And many more.
What did they do to deserve such a sophisticated body? Was it a mistake?
The human body was designed to last 120 to 140 years. Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days from 21 Feb 1875 to 4 August 1997
It is interesting to compare their life expectancy with other animals
Medicine and better hygiene prolonged our life expectancy from 30 to 80 years. This is a good start, but they are only halfway. They gained 50 years. They have 50 more years to go. They started by using their linear way of thinking: one symptom, one illness, one treatment. In the second half, they may encounter different combinations of causes that can produce different illnesses requiring different treatments, depending on the patient. Their grandchildren may compare medicine without A.I. with life without computers.
All this was done without help from the human brain. The parents only introduced a spermatozoid to an ovule. What happened after that is out of their control. The first cell knew how to grow and multiply. The mother provides food and shelter. She cannot even decide if she wants a boy or a girl. You may not approve. This is not the way to treat a woman.
At birth, their environment changes from the womb of the mother to the environment of planet Earth. It will be their responsibility, all their life, to do for their body what their mother did for the embryo. They have to provide their body with food and shelter. They can assume that the same process could continue after their death. Could they move from the environment of planet Earth to the solar system? Why not?
If this is correct, they will have to accept the idea that their body represents only a very small part of the matter on planet Earth, and planet Earth represents only a very small part of all the matter in the universe, and all the matter in the universe is only a tiny part of reality. That should keep them humble.
Let’s keep moving!
Their body is made of atoms, but those atoms don’t stay in their body. They follow their own cycles. An atom of calcium that is today in their skeleton might have been in the shell of an egg and could be on its way to a fish in the ocean. Their stay in a human body is only a small detour in their own cycle.
The human body is made of a deviation in the cycles of atoms.
Mother nature keeps those atoms circulating between trees, oceans, microbes, viruses, and humans. It is a continuous creation. The atoms could remain the same, but the way they are combined keeps changing. We know that in the past, they made dinosaurs. Mother Nature decided to put her atoms to better use. According to their scientists, the atoms are immortal (but you may want to question the experience that the scientists have of immortality).
The human body may be nothing more than a traffic jam in the circulation of atoms.
They are carried by the flow and pretend
to be the captain of their ship!
We could look at the world as a sea of atoms and individuals as icebergs on that sea. What we call death is the melting of the icebergs as they are recycled.
There is a flow of energy.
Those atoms are not moving at random. They serve a certain purpose. Without their sun, planet Earth would be nothing more than a very cold piece of rock. This energy from their sun makes the plants grow and feed animals and humans. The energy that humans absorb from their food is used to keep them warm and moving. However, about 20% of this energy is sent to the brain. That makes humans part of a cycle. The sun sends them some energy that goes through their material world and is returned as energy to their brain. This energy cycle could be the ‘Mother cycle’ and humans are part of it, above all the cycle of carbon, the cycle of nitrogen and all the cycles our scientists are talking about.
Humans may be a very small part of the universe,
but they are part of something really great.