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Anytime I learn about bodily functions I become more and more aware of how shit it's engineering is. Works amazing, sure, but try and fix or debug anything? Good luck.

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Erm, are you aware of any other machine, that is able for self repairing and self replicating in a complex and changing environment?

I really would not call my body bad engineering, just because I do not understand how it works in detail.

Rather the opposite, the more I learn, the more amazed I am, how awesome it all is. The complex interactions of chemical, electrical and physical components. (And who knows, maybe even quantum field elements.)

I could not design anything remotely complex at all.

Also, I debug and fix my body all the time, or rather, my body does this mostly in auto mode.

Are you saying God likes to yeet buggy unmaintainable spaghetti code directly into production?

DNA is spaghetti code exemplified. We are carried around tons of dead viral DNA for example - what amounts to shipping code with older code commented out.

I'm using this argument in my next code review meeting.

As a reviewer I'd then insist that your code was thrown into a software-eats-software world and given a few million reproductive cycles to see how it fares. If it's still thriving you'll get your PR approval.

Hmm. We really ARE created in his image - at least I am.

Or maybe this reality is actually a dev environment.

That thing where you can't accelerate to the speed of light is obviously a hack around some glitch that happens when you do so.

I guess we should be grateful our brains are complex enough to understand anything. Maybe it's too much to ask to ask them to be able to understand themselves. They would need to get more complex to understand themselves, but then that complexity would make them more difficult to understand. It's the snake trying to swallow its own tail.

Tractors don't know how to repair each other, either.

To be fair, tractors don't go on about how smart they are

almost like life is an MVP that could pivot at any time

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