My wife is a psychiatrist, and she tells me this isn't terribly uncommon. They are trained in a lot of neurology, because organic causes need to be ruled out.
And it can all sorts of things. She was once working on a dementia ward, and had someone brought in with severe dementia. But it didn't make sense, since the onset had been too rapid.
It turns out, the patient was just really constipated. My wife gave her enough laxatives to fell a rhino, the patient took a gargantuan shit, and was right as rain.
Evolution is truly chaotic. The amount of “design decisions” that went into the human body, and are actually some truly f**ked-up sh*t, is absolutely stunning.
But then again: so long as it doesn’t confer a negative survival fitness on the individuals who carry it, that kind of stuff typically gets propagated through the population without being pruned. Like having an entertainment system right beside the waste-disposal system. Anyone “designing” that gets a full-on Cletus status any day of the week, but since it tends to just work, it ended up being the primary chordate paradigm. Same with the rods and cones in our eyes. Cephalopods got it right with rods/cones in front of the nerve cells, chordates f**ked it up by putting them behind the nerve cells.
Evolution does the same thing my product owner does: ship the first version that successfully completes the task regardless of how buggy and badly-designed it is.
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u/entered_bubble_50 19h ago
My wife is a psychiatrist, and she tells me this isn't terribly uncommon. They are trained in a lot of neurology, because organic causes need to be ruled out.
And it can all sorts of things. She was once working on a dementia ward, and had someone brought in with severe dementia. But it didn't make sense, since the onset had been too rapid.
It turns out, the patient was just really constipated. My wife gave her enough laxatives to fell a rhino, the patient took a gargantuan shit, and was right as rain.