To investigate the purpose of our life, it would be good to know how our body, our soul and our brain are working together.

 

Our body is way above our head -)

 

The human brain is very limited compared with the complexity of the vast universe. We don’t even know what is going on inside our own bodies. We don’t know all the chemistry necessary to digest a simple meal. We don’t know what happens eight hours a day when we are asleep.

What is going on is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved.

Remove 75% of a liver and the body will completely rebuild the whole liver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPoqpeog2Wc&t=2s

Starfish can regenerate their body. Sharks continually shed their teeth. It would be nice if we could do the same!

 

At first, the human body looks relatively simple: one trunk, one head, two legs and two arms. This is a widespread template that many animals have used before us. There is also something particular to every human being. It is their face where you can find a wealth of information that differentiates one individual from another. In short, a human body belongs to a species, but this species is made up of completely different individuals.

 

Everything gets much more complicated when you investigate what is under your skin.

The human body is way above our heads!  It is much more complicated than anything a human brain can conceive:

• 30000 to 50000 different proteins

• 60000 different kinds of toxins

• Between 75000 and 100000 genes

• There are more than one million different kinds of bacteria in your mouth alone.

• 10 million different types of blood cells

• The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.

• Trillions of cells are organized into groups within groups and react with other groups.

• Every second our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.

• The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000. 

 

It is so complicated that we had to divide our ‘medicine’ into more than 100 different specialties such as Urology – Neurology – Cardiology – Ophthalmology – Pathology…. And many more.

What did we do to deserve such a sophisticated body? Was it a mistake?

 

The human body was designed to last 120 to 140 years. Jeanne Louise Calment lived 122 years and 164 days from 21 Feb 1875 to 4 August 1997

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It is interesting to compare our life expectancy with other animals   

Medicine and better hygiene prolonged our life expectancy from 40 to 80 years. This is a good start, but we're only halfway there. We gained 40 years, and we have 40 more years to go. We began by employing our linear way of thinking: one symptom, one illness, one treatment. In the second half, we may encounter various causes that can lead to different diseases, each requiring distinct treatments tailored to the individual patient. Our grandchildren may think of medicine without A.I. like today, we think of life without computers.

 

All this was accomplished without the aid of the human brain. The parents only introduced a spermatozoid to an ovule. What happened after that was 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 disapprove. This is not the way to treat a woman.

At birth, our environment changes from the womb to the environment of planet Earth. It will be our responsibility, all our life, to do for our body what our mother did for the embryo and provide our body with food and shelter. We can assume that the same process could continue after our death. Could we move from the environment of planet earth to the solar system? Why not?

 

If the scientists are right, we will have to accept the idea that our body stands for 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 us humble.

 

Let’s keep moving!

Our body is made of atoms, but those atoms don’t stay in our body. They follow their own cycles. Mother nature keeps those atoms circulating between trees, oceans, microbes, viruses and humans.

 

The human body is made of a deviation in the cycles of atoms.

 

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.  Their production was dropped. Their atoms must have been put to better use. According to scientists, atoms are immortal (although one may question the scientists' firsthand experience with immortality).

 

We thought that the human body was made of matter when it is nothing more than a deviation in the circulation of atoms. We pretend to dominate the universe, and we discover that our own body is no more than a traffic regulation.

We are carried by the flow

and pretend to be the captain of our 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 those icebergs getting recycled.

 

We may be a very small part of the universe, but we are part of something really great.

 

Our senses are like the sun, which prevents us from seeing the stars.

When awake, we live in our bodies. It belongs to the physical world where everything has a shape, a color, a weight. This is the domain of the predilection of the scientists. That does not mean that our body is perfect. Far from it! Ducks can fly, dive in the water, and walk on the ground. They can even walk on water! They must have a very poor opinion of humans.

 

During the day, our life is dominated by the signals that we receive from our senses. The main ones are seeing and hearing. They make us conscious of the outside world. They keep us focused on the material world. They are like the sun that prevents us from seeing the stars.

 

At night, there is nothing to prevent us from seeing the stars.

When we fall asleep, we leave our body in bed like we leave the car in the garage. We don’t know what happened to the driver. Our eyes are closed. There is no noise and no light. We would wake up if any signal from our senses could reach our brain. We have entered the domain of the non-physical. We can see the stars.

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