in the belly of the fish

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Would You Believe Me...

There is a factory that exists somewhere on our earth that has millions of workers. And all of those workers are deaf, mute, blind and mentally disabled. This factory produces one of the greatest new technologies in the world: nanobots. None of the workers actually know where they are or what they are doing but each worker in the factory knows the entire database of the factory and they keep producing the best nanobots science has ever seen.

When a thousand workers come together they form a self-supporting group -- a self-supporting group that can feed and clean itself -- and when a thousand groups come together they form a building unit for the nanobot production. Mind me, they are in groups, but they still don't know what's happening.

Every single worker gets replaced with a brand new replica when his time comes but he never knows he is being replaced. The factory has a central command room with such technology that when the factory owner gives a command her message travels to all the workers in less than .07 seconds.

Would you believe me if I said all these workers, and all the supplies for the factory and all the ideas and the prototypes for the nanobots coincidentally appeared in the same place and just clicked together to make this factory exist?

No. No rational human being would believe me if I told her these and I wouldn't expect her to. It is irrational after all. All that happening by itself out of nowhere?  That's ridiculous.

But would you believe me if I said that factory was an analogy for my body and those workers were all the atoms and the groups were the cells and the building units were the tissues and the organs and the systems. And that command central was my brain, sending and receiving nerve impulses that traveled at 250 mph ( x). Of course you would. That is what our bodies do, isn't it? Be amazing. Be unbelievable.

Yet how irrational we are to believe, that it can all happen by itself. It can all happen over and over again, 7 octabillion ( x) atoms coming together to make a member of the same species, not knowing what's happening. How irrational we are to think that for all the people that ever lived and are to live, these atoms come together and function harmoniously not knowing what's happening. How irrational we are to think that impossibilities happen momentously and against all mathematical probabilities, atoms and cells and chromosomes form as if there is only one fixed arrangement.

How irrational. How very irrational to believe that all that happens, happens for no reason and with no direction and no consciousness. How so very irrational. Let's think together. Let's think and lets have the our brains send orders to our lifeless atoms. Let's think how we are so miraculous and let's think how we ignore that. Let's think together.

Lots of mitochondria,
~Belle