• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    The body works in sensible ways for some things, so it’s easy to forget that we’re a product of a system that makes an arbitrary change as long as the improved chance of propagation outweighs the side effects which there probably will be some because we’re a deeply interconnected mess.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      i’d just expect basic stuff like hunger to work right, y’know?
      Somehow we can have an incredibly complex circulatory system that fucking switches direction and fills in holes in the blood vessels upon birth, but our sense of hunger is slapdash?!?!

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
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        5 days ago

        We’re walking tubes of bacteria. If the bacteria switch to alternate energy sources that have weird byproducts, not much you can do about that