ANALOGY
In NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (July, 1954) we find this analogy:
“The way to understand the telephone company, one A T & T public relations expert told me, is to think of it as a nerve system. Think of the country as a big scattered organism; the telephone wires link it together
as your own nerves coordinate body. At first the telephone wires carried only sounds and corresponded to the nerves that carry sound from your ear to your brain. Now, with television, they’re carrying sight—there’s the optic nerve. But your body also has motor nerves. Your brain sends a message along those nerves telling your finger to move, and it moves. Well, telephone wires do that, too.”
As wonderfully complexed as telephone system is, it is as one drop compared to ocean, compared to human organism with its complexed brain, wires, messages flowing afferently and efferently. Notwithstanding it works as far as it goes, no phone system can possess several functions which human living body possesses, viz., (1) it has NO MEMORY to duplicate like actions under like conditions; (2) it cannot and does not REPAIR DAMAGES to itself as living human body does; (3) it cannot ADAPT itself to variables arising—such as storms, wires down, flow broken—which a living human body can do; and (4) it CANNOT CONCEIVE CONCEPTIONS, REPRODUCE ITSELF by manufacturing seeds, plant them within itself, to generate, fertilize, and build units like itself, as living human body can do.
If an ACCIDENTAL SUBLUXATION occurs somewhere between generator and motors, diminishing its NORMAL QUOTA FLOW of electrical message conveying impulses, (5) IT CANNOT ACCIDENTALLY ADJUST ITSELF, restoring that flow, restoring its function of transmitting messages, as human living body often does. Everywhere we see man ARTIFICIALLY duplicating parts of living human beings. Everywhere we see medical men denying all NATURAL elements which make living man live as he is.
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