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It's a curious statement about our society where the idea that the fuel for the human body could be simple. "Basic nutrients and calories" It's all produced by
by droopyEyelids 14y ago
It's a curious statement about our society where the idea that the fuel for the human body could be simple. "Basic nutrients and calories"
It's all produced by self replicating lifeforms we've only begun to comprehend, right?
- Kim_Bruning 14y agoRight, but those sophisticated replicators are so sophisticated that they tend to be rather tolerant of their input. There's no reason to think we can't science out what that input needs to be, or at least to be able to find one or more valid subsets of input. This is a rather large improvement over what most people do; one typically applies little to no science whatsoever. :-P
- pyre 14y agoThe liver is pretty tolerate of alcohol, but a lifetime of alcohol use can cause liver issues.
- Kim_Bruning 14y agoRight; the downside of a tolerant system is that it does not fail hard. This does not, however, preclude finding the system limits by use of the scientific method. It just makes it a tad trickier at times. I'm getting the idea that people profess a "belief in science" in the general case, but then absolutely deny its applicability in the specific case here. ;-)