This first sentence, as mundane as it may appear, was my single greatest obstacle to overcome. The hardest part of anything is starting. Does it matter if you were made in America versus Japan? The parts are undoubtedly similar, but what about fuel efficiency? Are we chimeras-the end product of parts cobbled together and grafted on by the judicious hand of a creator? Or are building materials limited to what’s in stock? It doesn’t seem likely that we’re ever going to come out with a solar model, but why not? Wouldn’t such a design put an end to, say, human hunger? Maybe we’re not so much like machines after all and certain events in the deep past have constrained our futures, but how much so? Sometimes to better understand our present condition, we need to go back to the beginning, and in our case, where better to start than the very beginning. Perhaps there is a limit to our understanding of the human body when it is treated as an organism without history. Our mechanics have done a spectacular job keeping us on the road, but there’s never a lifetime guarantee, and if we were cars, we’d definitely be considered lemons. After all, entire fields have been devoted to deconstructing, fixing, and reassembling a “biological machine” constantly breaking down, or so it would seem. We unquestionably have a better understanding of the human body today than at any other moment in history.
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