Do you recognize the times your body is acting up and deciding it doesn’t feel okay for some unknown reason? Today I felt like that. Nausea through and through. Whether I ate or not, the constant feeling of slight nausea remained there for me to endure.
The human body is fascinating. A cell is as complex as a universe, but a human body is like a million universes (or, to be exact, 28 to 36 trillion universes, which is the number of cells in the human body1).
Regardless of its complexity, the body is sometimes a bit dumb — looking at you, anxiety. Pains and tender spots, quirky palpitations and spasms while falling asleep. There are quite many bugs in our system that call for our attention while being virtually meaningless.
Our creator made plenty of good decisions, but we’re far from perfect. Just have a look at Human vestigiality on Wikipedia. Evolution certainly played a part in our most useless of features, but we are not discussing the appendix.
We are discussing the hiccups (pun intended) of the body and their frustrating nature. Why must we wake up only to learn we “slept wrong”? Why must we have an irrational fear of public speaking? Why must we have the dreadful hiccup, that only seems to show up at the most unwelcome of times?
The human body isn’t perfect, but without its mistakes we’d only be machines. With the complexity of trillions of universes, there are bound to be a couple of mistakes. Maybe mistakes are inevitable, and are what makes us different from machines.
Mistakes in the human body are one of the core features of our humanity. Without it, we are as perfect and simple as a plain rock.
- We now know how many cells there are in the human body. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2392685-we-now-know-how-many-cells-there-are-in-the-human-body/ ↩︎
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