We can avoid death to some extint. All the living organisms that dont mind dying are dead. Evolution bought us here. All the recepters doing there job. Bassically we are suffering from success.
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Endless life can wish only children or demented: when every stone that is picked up and turned over offers news;-)
Endless life can wish only children or demented: when every stone that is picked up and turned over offers news;-)
I try to live good good not to give up the billions of organisms that live in and on me... all the microbiotes and little animals on the skin. Solidarity....yo.
Birth and death happen in every organism: at the end of their (useful) life, cells commit apoptosis (kind of programmed cell death), to be replaced by a new cell. When the old cells won't die it's a case of cancer. Aging starts once the cell renewal procedure slows down due to gradual system malfunction / accumulation of errors.
The temporary "exit" from that scene has been practiced for millenniums by some but isn't well known. When scientific articles mention "consciousness" it's always in a subject-object relationship, ignoring the issue that has been labeled "consciousness without content" which also could be described as "awake in deep dreamless sleep" (technically possible but without training probably not without risks). From that perspective, death only means the end of the audio-visual show and other sensory impressions.
I am often surprised how our specie swapped from the hunt to survive to the social hunt to survive. We certainly not more wasted 4 hours a day ti fullfil our eating needs. Now we are enough to work less in most countries but we work more and more as if we were still paid by hours of hunt/kilos of meat ratio !
What happend we lost the meaning of life and are in a social hunting competition for of life ? How futile...
What happend we lost the meaning of life and are in a social hunting competition for of life ? How futile...
The hunt to survive didn't end, it was only forgotten. Ancient societies already had their issues. Then and now, one of those issues is called "status". So evident that no example is needed. Back then, skills benefiting a community were important and those (mental, physical) skills were clear to most members of such communities. Nowadays, mere access to (loads of) money has replaced the need for skills and the results have become too obvious to miss. Another issue for some of the ancients was this:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24817-ancient-hunter-gatherers-had-rotten-teeth/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24817-ancient-hunter-gatherers-had-rotten-teeth/
The issue indicates humans also lost the knowledge of species-specific foods long ago, as none of the wild species in what remains of "free nature" have rotten teeth.
Everything we eat is a cultivar. Even fruits are way sweeter than just a couple hundred years ago. The supermarket is overflowing with like 5 kinds of apples, 7 kinds of onions, 4 kinds of oranges, etc.
My parent's generation was the meat and potatoes generation. Anything less and you were starving. They were both obese and diabetic and so was I. Now I eat stuff like beans and spinach.
Teeth are a pretty good indicator of overall health. It's not just for horses.
My parent's generation was the meat and potatoes generation. Anything less and you were starving. They were both obese and diabetic and so was I. Now I eat stuff like beans and spinach.
Teeth are a pretty good indicator of overall health. It's not just for horses.
Here in the West of Panama, many fruits and veggies are uncultivated - just wild varieties. In the tropics evolution can be so fast it's observable, and my last experience was a papaya that grew up from the compost. Initially producing wormy fruits like its predecessors from a plantation, after a few months the fruits are without worms, without any support from pesticides. Before that, a nice case was imported seeds of Moreno tomato. After 3 generations nobody could tell the difference with "local" tomatoes.
Living outside the US for most of my life I have noticed it is mostly Americans that have perfect teeth. Noticeably perfect. Almost unreal.
The rest of humanity can't afford or haven't got access to a good dentist.
The rest of humanity can't afford or haven't got access to a good dentist.
That might still be the case for the baby boomer generation, nowadays that's different:
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/...oral-health-in-the-world-600086/?singlepage=1
One reason for bad teeth might be "added sugar" as that has been proven to be addictive (increasing consumption and profit for producer).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23719144/
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/...oral-health-in-the-world-600086/?singlepage=1
One reason for bad teeth might be "added sugar" as that has been proven to be addictive (increasing consumption and profit for producer).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23719144/
They probably are unreal, mostly caps, bridges, bonding, or veneers. Certainly bleached.
The meaning of life is taking a thoothpaste bite of life and live the life to the fullest tube !
Do you know an Hollywood actor who has still true teeth since the 40s' ? Nah. They all have implants and they look like to live very well...
Do you know an Hollywood actor who has still true teeth since the 40s' ? Nah. They all have implants and they look like to live very well...
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Just in case someone thinks that wild animals can't have tooth issues:
Oral and dental conditions in adult African wild dog skulls: a preliminary report