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Forty Parameters of the Designed Body
Listen in as Steve Laufmann reflects on the body’s fight against equilibrium, the Goldilocks principle, and more!
The Designed Body: Our Irreducibly Complex Blood Pressure Control System
We always hear about friends and family with blood pressure problems. There’s something easy to miss, though.
The Designed Body, Continued: Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails
Suppose I want to build a car that’s capable of getting me from point A to point B. It minimally takes several dozen parts.
The Designed Body: Irreducible Complexity on Steroids = Exquisite Engineering
Perhaps because life is so common, it’s easy to lose sight of how tenuous it is. Life depends on a delicate balance of forces.
A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body
Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems.