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> Ultimately, to the body an implant is simply a foreign object. I get your point but, there's a lot of foreign objects going in by the way of various pores an

> Ultimately, to the body an implant is simply a foreign object. I get your point but, there's a lot of foreign objects going in by the way of various pores and openings. Biological beings are surprisingly resilient & fragile at the same time.

bandrami 1y ago
Those openings lead to spaces that are not "inside" the body, though. For deuterostomes like humans, the digestive tract is still "outside" in a lot of important ways.
- Xorakios 1y ago
  Well good golly miss molly, that's a word I had never heard of. Thanks!
  - BaseBaal 1y ago
    For the lazy it basically means as embryos our anus forms before our mouths do. So we have to talk out our asses before we even leave the womb!
znpy 1y ago
I think you narfed your own point by using objects getting into various pores and openings. Pacemakers are somewhat similar devices that get implanted into bodies and still effectively are "foreign objects".
jibal 1y ago
Not remotely the same thing.
- ignoramous 1y ago
  Pesticides and micro plastics are equally foreign even if not absorbed/ingested in as one big unit. Besides, in modern medicine, implanting devices in organs (ex: pacemakers, valves, electrodes) isn't unheard of?