The human body is, as are bodies of all "living" species, essentially a machine with one unique feature - water is one of the necessary ingredients that make up our bodies and water is necessary for our bodies to work properly.
What's A Machine?
What's A Machine?
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What comes to mind when we think of machines? Usually, a series of objects uniquely connected to each other that together accomplish a desired and useful task e.g. a machine we call "car" produces movement in a specified direction and the machine we call "cell phone" transmits our voice all over the globe and captures only those voices that we want to hear. The car and cell phone are just two examples of machines made by humans.
Resources for Artificial Machines
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Artificial machines, like the car and cell phone, require at least three natural resources:
- water is necessary to make each and every artificial machine
- one natural resource (at a minimum) in its natural form or in an artificial form, makes up the physical body of every artificial machine
- at least one other resource, that we call "fuel", is necessary for the machine to operate: The car requires gasoline (petrol) while cell phones require electricity.
All resources, except water, are typically used up (do not exist in their original form) after the artificial machine has completed the task it was designed to do.
Water is used up only in the sense that it still exists in its original form but is contaminated in some way and can only be used again after the contamination is removed.
The Human Body - A Natural "living" Machine
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| On average: 72% is water Source - dorchesterhealth.org |
Natural "Living" machines are exactly like artificial machines in three ways:
- Both kinds of machines cannot exist in the absence of water: artificial machines require water in their manufacturing process, while the human embryo can only exist in an aqueous solution
- Both kinds of machines do not transform water, at its molecular level, while they use it
- Both kinds of machines do contaminate the water they use in some way to make used water unusable.
- Both kinds of machines do contaminate the water they use in some way to make used water unusable.
Natural "Living" machines differ from artificial machines in two ways:
- Water continues to be a necessary ingredient that makes up physical bodies of natural "living" machines, but is not a necessary ingredient of artificial machine bodies.
- Water is a necessary ingredient for both natural Living" machines to function and properly do all the tasks that it is designed to do. Water is not a necessary resource for artificial machines to operate.
Life as we know and define it, is not possible in the absence of water. This is the first and fundamental reason why safe water must be locally available in abundant quantity.
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