what makes us human? - by meesh - a work in progress
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On what runs through our veins beyond blood.
Flesh and bone. a delicate cage of ribs guarding a heart that beats about seventy times a minute without us ever asking it to. Neurons firing in tangled electric highways and lungs pulling in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide in a rhythm older than memory. We are the spines that let us stand upright, the opposable thumbs that let us grip, and the minds complex enough to build, destroy, and build again. Strip us down to our anatomy, and we are all but a collection of cells following the instructions written in strands of DNA and yet. pure survival has never been what we were made for. We…
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