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One answer I've read in The Spark In The Machine[1], is that our cells' organizational energies (or Qi in Chinese Medicine) is not strong enough as we grow olde

by abledon 10y ago

One answer I've read in The Spark In The Machine[1], is that our cells' organizational energies (or Qi in Chinese Medicine) is not strong enough as we grow older. Only when someone is super young (when their qi is super strong) can they regrow body parts and very small ones (the tips of the fingers!)[2] """ Doctors have seen the effect in humans without quite understanding how it happens. "Kids will actually regrow a pretty good fingertip, after amputation, if you just leave it alone," says Dr. Christopher Allan, from the University of Washington Medicine Hand Center, who wasn't involved in the research. """ EDIT: yeah i know its HN so i'll probably get downvotes, but as far as modern science is concerned we still know very little about embryology and what actually controls the beautiful orchestration of a single cell developing into a full human in 9 months. The idea of an organization energy that directs embryological cellular function is now starting to be investigated in western science [3] [1]https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Machine-Acupuncture-Explains-Mysteries/dp/1848191960 https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Machine-Acupuncture-Explains-My... [2] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/190385484/chopped-how-amputated-fingertips-sometimes-grow-back http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/19038548... [3] https://vimeo.com/26761300 https://vimeo.com/26761300

marvy 10y ago
I am kind of doubtful about this Qi business. I followed the amazon link you gave and it made it even more doubtful. Nevertheless, I gave you an upvote, because I had no idea fingertips could ever regrow; that's really cool! I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the third link. Are you saying Qi is electric?
- abledon 10y ago
  Yes! the term "Qi" is just another way to denote the organizational electric energies our bodies use to orchestrate cellular function. This video does a way better job at describing it: https://vimeo.com/154294365 https://vimeo.com/154294365 (2 minutes)
  - marvy 10y ago
    Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?
    - abledon 10y ago
      Its more about the strength and quality rather than the quantity. As we get older the quality reduces with the rate depending on our genes, lifestyle, habits etc... Children in general, have better qi because they are 'new'. I'm not going to go into the scientific details here and start listing off pubmed studies, but its all in that book if your interested (many references at the end of each chapter). I'm sorry the amazon link seemed to further dishearten you, I would love to know why!
      - marvy 10y ago
        > I would love to know why Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook: "[...] how the hearts of two people in love (or in scientific terms `quantum entanglement') truly beat as one" Just no. I don't know quantum mechanics, but I know enough to say that can't possibly be anywhere near right, or even vaguely plausible.
        abledon 10y ago
        Ah yes, so, similar to how womens' periods synchronize up when they live together...Studies of couples show that when in a state of rapport, of emotional empathy, heart rates become matched and that they become mismatched when out of rapport: http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-couples/ http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-coup... Yeah I would probably not take that quote 'Truly beat as one' literally, I mean, I'm betting the heart rates in the study aren't as precise as to say... a distributed real-time system written in go /joke :)
        marvy 10y ago

by abledon 10y ago

marvy 10y ago

I am kind of doubtful about this Qi business. I followed the amazon link you gave and it made it even more doubtful. Nevertheless, I gave you an upvote, because I had no idea fingertips could ever regrow; that's really cool! I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the third link. Are you saying Qi is electric?

abledon 10y ago
Yes! the term "Qi" is just another way to denote the organizational electric energies our bodies use to orchestrate cellular function. This video does a way better job at describing it: https://vimeo.com/154294365 https://vimeo.com/154294365 (2 minutes)
- marvy 10y ago
  Okay, fine. Then what makes you say that children have more than adults?
  - abledon 10y ago
    Its more about the strength and quality rather than the quantity. As we get older the quality reduces with the rate depending on our genes, lifestyle, habits etc... Children in general, have better qi because they are 'new'. I'm not going to go into the scientific details here and start listing off pubmed studies, but its all in that book if your interested (many references at the end of each chapter). I'm sorry the amazon link seemed to further dishearten you, I would love to know why!
    - marvy 10y ago
      > I would love to know why Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook: "[...] how the hearts of two people in love (or in scientific terms `quantum entanglement') truly beat as one" Just no. I don't know quantum mechanics, but I know enough to say that can't possibly be anywhere near right, or even vaguely plausible.
      - abledon 10y ago
        Ah yes, so, similar to how womens' periods synchronize up when they live together...Studies of couples show that when in a state of rapport, of emotional empathy, heart rates become matched and that they become mismatched when out of rapport: http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-couples/ http://www.futurity.org/heart-beats-sync-up-in-romantic-coup... Yeah I would probably not take that quote 'Truly beat as one' literally, I mean, I'm betting the heart rates in the study aren't as precise as to say... a distributed real-time system written in go /joke :)
        marvy 10y ago