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The body can just do things. Always rebuilding.
Immune cells: hours
Small-intestine lining: 3-5 days
Stomach lining: 3-6 days
Taste-bud cells: 10 days
Skin epidermis: 1 month
Red blood cells: 120 days
Liver cells: 1 year
Fat cells: 10 years
Skeleton: 10 years
Brain neurons: lifetime
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The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
But the point Narayan was making is that, as we go about our day-to-day lives, we impart a kind of narrative meaning to things. Ultimately these narratives assume large form. We decide that something we’ve done was a huge mistake, and if we had done something else instead, everything would be wonderful. Or we decide that we must have some particular possession or achievement, and if we don’t get it, everything will be horrible. Underlying these narratives, at their foundation, are elementary narrative judgments about the goodness or badness of things in themselves. So, for example,
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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