“We are messy biology. We are just meat that thinks. We live with the persistent delusion, however, that we are somehow more than meat.
“Additionally there is a tendency to believe that existing in the natural state of every person would mean their body functions perfectly. In reality the human body is a kluge, a series of evolutionary compromises that functions well enough to breed, and exists in a constant state of decay, barely staving off entropy for seven or eight decades until finally succumbing to the inevitable.”
Posted by Steven Novella on January 20, 2016