Continued..

Pain

First of all I agree that pain is important in the sense that it does not allow us to do harm to ourself and when there's injury the pain makes us take extra good care of the area.
Do you know babies who can't feel pain (CIPA) can pluck out their tooth, chew on their own tongue, continue running around with a fractured heel, bang their head on the wall, swallow boiling water, burn their fingers etc without showing any signs of distress.

As you can tell it is obviously not good la if there's no pain at all, but the thing is that pain will not be toned down.
Just look at the cancer patients who are in agony because the pain won't go away.

Okay I get it there's cancer in the gastric, so the pain has done its job and should tone down right?
But no.
It just tortures the hell out of the poor patient.

I think it is time for some upgrades.
Here are some suggestions of replacement for pain after the person has been alerted of an injury :
The skin where the affected area is can:

- Flash with neon lights

- Beep every 2 minutes as a reminder

- Grow post-its on it

- Grow extra hair
e.g. If I have an injured leg:

I sure would remember to take care of it.

Another stupid thing about pain is that it can be "tricked".
Aiya very hard to explain but simply said, when you bang your knee against the chair ("ouch!") and you rub that area very hard ("oooh..." ) you feel less pain.

One more stupid thing: Have you heard about the phantom limb before?
When people amputate their limbs, sometimes they can still "feel" pain coming from the limb that is not there anymore. Thats totally screwing with your brain la.
Just imagine trying to scratch the nonexistent leg.



Upgrade yes no?

But I'm glad some of the useless things are still in use despite being obsolete.
For example nails and hair.
For nails maybe primitive people use them to fight, dig for worms.
But hair? What is hair for? Insulation?

I think its for aesthetic purposes..
We would be laughed if we were hairless.


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In conclusion,
Due to the complexity of the system, many diseases and illnesses can precipitate when any one pathway is disturbed,
I think things would be much easier if we do away the respiratory system, renal system and cardiovascular system etc etc.. You see what I'm saying?

We might be happier if we were just a glob of something.
Think along the lines of amoeba.

♥Bid Farewell