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The human body is a wonder of completely random chance, but a complete and utter failure of any kind of system. Anyone who isn’t a transhumanist is a total jobbernowl, in my humble opinion.
we have organs that only exist to kill us, our mouths are completely fucked, our bodies will just stop making vitally important chemicals, it’s stupidly common for our bodies to kill themselves because it freaks out at perfectly benign things, our super special brains take very stupid shortcuts, and of course the bones. A biologist could probably go on for hours about the failures of evolution, but i am not a biologist.
We should have flaccid teeth that only get hard when we are hungry and see food
Thanks, I hate it.
Imagine having to vividly imagine eating a bacon cheeseburger in order to floss or brush. No thank you.
Just stick your finger between your flaccid teeth and give them a good rub. No biggie.
i’m incredibly salty about how our “only air please” tubes are connected to “everything goes through that” tubes, like what the fuck
Don’t forget that our spine would prefer having us walk on all fours
But our hips were like, “nah fuck that. I’m up now.”
Supposedly, that little hack is what lets us talk.
No, that just lets us talk out of the same hole we put other things into. The talking mechanism could be connected to just the air hole. And as a bonus, we could talk while eating and drinking.
But you see it isn’t a failure, in fact it’s literally the most successful yet. Evolutionary adaptations don’t come about because they make life comfortable they make it so one can live long enough to make babies, everything else is just a bonus
Which is why the whole thing kinda starts to break down once a species reaches a point where the specimens can survive after they can no longer produce offspring. Like humans.
There’s multiple examples of the same thing in other species. Typically it’s a social animal where passing on accumulated knowledge is a survival strategy. Whales are one example, I’d have to look up the others.
Being a transhumanist is foolish. Just skip the middleman and make better robots to completely take over our species.
Well… robots wouldn’t be sentient, so there would be no point. And I would argue making sentient robots is morally wrong.
I don’t remember the show (or even if it was a show) but a guy went to the doctor to complain about his back pain. Doctor said that it might clear up in several thousand years. Confused, the patient asks for clarification. Basically, humans went bipedal too soon, and our spines weren’t made to be upright for so long at a time. The doctor’s analogy was that we “turned a clothesline into a flagpole”.
Louie, whatever anyone feels about its creator it’s still a great show.
Disappointingly great, honestly. I’d recommend it to everyone if not for the sexual harassment.
Can’t wait for my brain to be transferred into cloud! Be gone, mortal flesh!
Oh it’s trash skeletal system alright. Talk to any physiotherapist about knees, shoulders, and what shoes are doing to our arches.
Walking barefoot all the time is also bad for our legs and feet, but in different ways. Because we made our ground too hard and we aren’t allowed to sit down often enough.
The human body isn’t perfect, but it’s not helped by doing long stretches of a single activity.
So it’s more “stupid agriculture, pulling us away from the nomadic hunter-gatherer life we’re built for”?
Chasing an animal to exhaustion involves a lot of running, which really fucks up your knees. Especially with uneven surfaces and primitive shoes.
I think the human body really is just a product of “good enough”.
