• NathanRanch@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    When does a cell realize it’s part of a larger body? Does the cell owe the body, or does the body owe the cell? Are we becoming cells of a larger body? Sometimes I think so

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      3 days ago

      When the body detects an ill cell, it purges it as soon as possible to prevent larger cascade failures. Sickness are body process iregularities caused by one or more contingencies failing.

      Something had to have worked before, that we started noticing it is effecting us now. That applies to society especially.

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Well we didn’t have these magic boxes in every corner of our planet, always within line of sight of every human being alive, constantly whispering things to irritate, anger, divide and corrupt every aspect of society.

        So there’s that.

        Also we used to execute or exile people the group found distasteful, which certainly has its own issues.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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      3 days ago

      If society is the next stage of macro organism, I must be part of the appendix :)