Fascinates me to no end. I’d rather spend a day dissecting a body than go fishing any day of the week. Luckily my job pays me to do just that.
[quote]jCaesar88 wrote:
First of all, if this is in the wrong section, please move it. I thought it fits here. But you never know.
Ok, so time and time again, I keep getting amazed by human body and the way it works. What I mean by that, usually is how everything is interconnected.
Recently I decided to finally go and get a massage in one of those asian massage places. Long story short: when the chick pressed at a certain point on my leg-it was back of my leg just above the knee (semi-membranosus probably?), almost my whole thigh and especially the vastus lateralis muscle tensed up incredibly, and then consequently relaxed completely, and all of the sudden i felt how my blood started rushing to that area.
Then she also massaged my feet, and when she pressed and rolled somewhere around the inner side of my foot, my ass clenched up so much that you would be able to stick a sharpened hair in it.
All I’m trying to say here that I’m amazed with the human body and what is it capable of.
This was just one example from one time.
What amazed you about the human body?
Flame on![/quote]
Phantom limbs. When you lose a limb, the connections to that part of the brain that controls that limb are re-connected to the closest parts of the brain.
I.E. lose a hand, when someone touches your arm, you feel that sensation in your lost hand. (In the brain the arm is closest to the hand)
I.E. you lose a foot, when you orgasm, you feel the orgasm in your phantom foot.
(In the brain, the foot controls are closest to genital controls)
It’s definitely fascinating to me.
Growing and getting bigger in response to muscle stress is in and of itself awesome. I think that’s what fascinates most bodybuilders and any type of strength athletes. Challenging your body and feeding it with proper nutrition and watching it grow is another part of evolution most people miss out on because they just don’t understand and comprehend why we do what we do.
The fact that 1 Taco Bell meal can cause me to take 6 shits fascinates and frustrates me simultaneously.
Most people have no idea on how the body can adapt to all sorts of things. On either a very small level to a huge level, our bodies are just mystifying.
[quote]Producer wrote:
Professor X wrote:
No need to flame. The human body is a work of art on such a level that it makes me wonder how people can believe this all happened by accident.
This post deserves a big flame.
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It sure doesn’t seem like you have it in you to be the one to do it, huh?
Yeah the human body’s pretty badass. Especially tits. Yeah…tits are nice.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Producer wrote:
Professor X wrote:
No need to flame. The human body is a work of art on such a level that it makes me wonder how people can believe this all happened by accident.
This post deserves a big flame.
It sure doesn’t seem like you have it in you to be the one to do it, huh?[/quote]
Prof boutta lth the Holy Smackdawn
I thought this was going to be about a rub and tug, with a story about your experience there.
[quote]Mutu wrote:
The fact that 1 Taco Bell meal can cause me to take 6 shits fascinates and frustrates me simultaneously.[/quote]
Thanks for the good laugh…I still have a smile on my face
the human body is fascinating! i couldn’t give a shit about biology. what really fascinates me is the multi-scale complexity of our bodies. and by multi-scale, i mean from cell length scales all the way up to limb length scales.
the respiratory system especially. how easy is it to breathe? pretty easy right? for each simple breath you take, you are EFFORTLESSLY distributing air to a VAST surface. simple partial pressure gradients then drive oxygen into your blood.
first of all, getting all that air to the alveoli is non-trivial. NON-TRIVIAL! but to then match up the surface area of the alveoli with the right amounts of blood to facilitate diffusion? holy crap. think of the plumbing in a building… kind of complexity is insignificant next to the complexity of the respiratory and circulatory systems. and yet, the complexity of the larger scale structure (i.e. the lungs) emerges from relatively simple processes at a much smaller scale.
did you know your alveoli secrete a surfactant to reduce surface tension, which would otherwise collapse the alveoli? as if there wasn’t enough going on with turbulent and laminar pipe flow, orifice flow, gas diffusion, pressure gradients and the like… now they also secrete soap? absolutely amazing.
the body is truly deserving the FULL meaning of the word “complex”. complexity. self-similarity across length scales. optimal fractal solutions to problems with seemingly incompatible goals. and it’s not just the human body, it’s life in all its forms.
the structure of life is amazing. if i don’t find god under the bar, i might find it in the structure of life.
[quote]gethuge08 wrote:
Right on Prof. X. I don’t mean to change this into a God discussion, but there is no way that humans, or even animals could have developed on there own. [/quote]
Um yes it could of. They did and continue to do so.
Also, it’s “their” not “there”.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
No need to flame. This is why I love bodybuilding and why I majored in biology in college. There is nothing more fascinating to me than how the body can change in response to stress. I have doubled my body weight since I first started lifting…something most would have said was impossible but people do it all of the time. The human body is a work of art on such a level that it makes me wonder how people can believe this all happened by accident.[/quote]
Good point.
Yes, evolution is pretty impressive.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The human body is a work of art on such a level that it makes me wonder how people can believe this all happened by accident.[/quote]
Best fucking post… EVER.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Professor X wrote:
The human body is a work of art on such a level that it makes me wonder how people can believe this all happened by accident.
Best fucking post… EVER.
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i really don’t think it was an accident, but probably not in the same way you guys are thinking it.
I think it would be hard to be involved in sport and not fascinated by the human body. One of the things I love about BJJ is the physics and mechanics involved in why techniques work.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I think the fact that out of 6,000,000,000 people, we are all different is the most mind blowing part.
6 billion individuals, all based around the same general blueprint, all varied… Amazing.[/quote]
x2
This IS very wild, 6 bill people and no one has the exact same face and no one is exactally the same, all the way down to the finger prints.
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Yes tits are indeed my favourite part of the anatomy. However what amazes me is that even with what we know about the body now, there may be several ‘levels’ of understanding above and beyond this that we have no clue how to even measure yet.
I’m thinking of ‘chi, prana’, etc, i.e. those energy forces and factors that certain practitioners claim to have an understanding of, that do seem to work, yet are totally beyond our current technology level to measure and examine properly.
So even as mind-bogglingly complicated as western medicine, etc, is now, it may be that we are literally only scratching the surface of what is possible. Amazing!
BBB[/quote]
The last 20 years of advancement in knowledge are mind boggling. I can’t wait to see what the next 20 years gives us! We have barely scratched the surface I’m thinking.