RE: Biological Complexity and the Sudden Discontinuity of Influence at the Edge of Space
It's a good thing that quails are egg-making machines because that's a lot of eggs in your breakfast bowl. It'd take me till noon to finish breakfast if I had to peel them all. I salute your fortitude!
I was browsing through various posts a while back and found @shelby’s great post about power which has a section on how batteries store power. It was insanely comparable to the way the the body's neural system works. It does seem like everything does end up coming in circles once it is well understood. The trick, of course, is to understand it. Understanding it so often does make us seem so much smaller in relation to so many other elements in the universe and it is so obvious why we need to explain the things that we don't understand until we have the knowledge to fill in the answers. On the other hand, I think I'd rather no know too much about the water, thanks.
Oh, heh, I didn't eat all of those at once! It does take some persistence to peel them, though.
Isn't it interesting how, when we learned about mechanics, we thought how much like a clock the body was? And then when we learned about electricity, how like a battery, and when we learned about computers, suddenly the brain was like a computer. I wonder what our next scientific breakthrough will turn us into?
It's so true that things compare so completely. It's kind of a wonder that discoveries aren't more intuitive and faster but then - hindsight...