Physical Intelligence - Day 53
CityVP Manjit
One thing I do know about the human body is that all our internal bits are designed to surpass our life expectancy, if that is we are engaged in body maintenance and not accelerating the natural cycle. Eating is an example. Obese eating uses up more cycles of the stomach than balanced eating, which means wear and tear is sped up if we keep using this internal resource. In this way the way machines breakdown is not that much different to how our organs breakdown other than we have a fantastic system of biological replenishment, which itself can only go so far.
Even with this tidbit of awareness, what is scary is how medical practitioners still do not know about the human body. If they knew so much then how do they still manage to discover that what they thought of as tissues in the intestines is actually an organ, and here the discovery is about the "mesentery" :
It sounds like an April Fools joke if it wasn't for the number of outlets that have announced a new organ, even if the video above accompanies it with a question mark. There is a question mark for medical practitioners because like other bits of us, they are not quite sure what it fully does, other than by detailing it as an organ, they have new ways of looking at our body, which should contribute to a new branches of science.
This is all well and good for scientific discovery, but it does not elevate my confidence that we know as much as we should know about the human body and it's functioning. How can I be sure of what is good for me other than a trial and error hypothesis?
What this video basically says is that the mesentery is what holds our intestines together along with our abdominal wall. This means that whatever physical intelligence I learn to apply is based on incomplete information we still currently have about functions of certain parts of our human body, and each medicine discovers something new working in us that science did not know about before - though the mesentery has been known for a long time but not as an organ.
The chief barometer then is effects after the fact and that means I am responding to anecdotal evidence. This means that some of physical intelligence is literally still in the mind. I cannot be sure that a certain prescription or way actually does the good it is perceived to be doing.
"More I learn less I know" is apt here but it does not need to be a refrain that halts or slows down the discovery of our own physical intelligence. It is good to be aware of the body relationship as a system. Physical intelligence does require a systems thinking viewpoint and in that regard I am already a convert.
From here there is the development of new practices such as Systems Biology
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