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Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. M
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Brah, no way. If you get stoned on an airplane, you shall see that highways distinctly resemble veins and arteries. Cells don't have circulatory systems. Bam. My model fits better with Superorganism. Now, let me write a paper and invent words to rival your "eukarcity" and "cityplasm".
- gumby 5y agoYour work should cause you to cruise through tenure review.
- rubatuga 5y agookay dr dshiv, what about cytoskeletons, microtubules, filaments, and their associated proteins such as dynein? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular_transport
- thanatos519 5y agoThose are building-level infrastructure. Girders, pneumatic tubes, elevators, staircases, segways ...
- dr_dshiv 5y agoI love intracellular transport videos like this. I want to see them set to Philip Glass: https://youtu.be/5dVIAISw68U https://youtu.be/5dVIAISw68U https://youtu.be/6aMq6dZkMyQ https://youtu.be/6aMq6dZkMyQ
- telesilla 5y agoNext best thing, animated DNA : https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY
- monsieurbanana 5y agoI have no words. This is fascinating. This conveys how mind blowing complex our body is better than anything I've seen before.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoIt's a computer based on vibrations. Every molecule has a different intrinsic oscillation!
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoReminds me of the game Factorio, but in 3D instead of 2, and under water.
- baq 5y agoThis single video could replace a whole month of boring biology lessons in high school… amazing really
- matheusmoreira 5y agoATP synthase! https://youtu.be/kXpzp4RDGJI https://youtu.be/kXpzp4RDGJI https://vcell.science/project/atpsynthase https://vcell.science/project/atpsynthase I think of it as a hydroelectric power plant. Hydrogen atoms are water, the electrochemical gradient is gravity and the enzyme is the turbine.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoI need me some proteins walking microtubules videos. Little damn machines almost make you want to believe in intelligent design, but natural selection and physics are just right to make it awesome.
- carapace 5y agoHeard of Michael Levin yet? :) ("What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 ) The work coming out of his lab seems to me to indicate that intelligence is ambient in living tissue, with the corallary that living systems are designed by intelligence: their own.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoYeap. ;-)
- matheusmoreira 5y agoAnd maps of cities are like histology slides.
- jameshart 5y agoNah, Sam Vimes in Guards Guards had it all worked out. And he was lying in a gutter at the time. “The city wasa, wasa, wasa wossname. Thing. Woman. Thass what it was. Woman. Roaring, ancient, centuries old. Strung you along, let you fall in thingy, love, with her, then kicked you inna, inna, thingy. Thingy, in your mouth. Tongue. Tonsils. Teeth.”
- failwhaleshark 5y agoI tend to think of them as ant trails, but a circulatory system works too.
- proc0 5y agoI've had the same thoughts. Roads are basically moving around cars, which move people and resources. This is the same function as red blood cells. This analogy includes white blood cells-- highway patrol police. People are perhaps the oxygen which is the catalyst for everything to work, and the resources like food, materials, etc., are like the nutrients the human body needs. Buildings are also individual cells of different kinds, and you can see different buildings have different functions as well, just like cells. I think cities are clusters of cells, and just like clusters of cells in the body, they perform functions that could, in turn, categorize them as "organs", because there is a dominant industry in that city, and the buildings in that city serve specific functions that get exported out to the rest of the cities in the country or the world. I think the paper's analysis is interesting, but I also think the starting point for the analysis should be function and not hierarchical structure, which is mostly static.