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| Jan 17, 2020 at 15:52 | comment | added | Halfthawed | @vsz Your ability to imagine such a conversation does not negate any of the arguments I put forth for the impossibility of higher life functioning with wholly interchangeable organs. It's a nice setting for an episode of Twilight Zone, but an efficient distribution system will never sound ludicrous. There's nowhere in the universe where a generalist will out perform a specialist in what the specialist is good at. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 5:42 | comment | added | vsz | I can imagine, on some alien planet someone asks the question on their equivalent of worldbuilding.se: "would it be possible for an alien race to have every single biological function done solely by distinct specialized body parts", while answers pointing out how ludicrous it sounds, and how would then energy (and especially matter, filtered out so that every body part receives only what it needs to process) travel to those distinct body parts, and what will coordinate them, and the logistics inside the body would be completely impossible to arise through natural evolution, and so on. | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 18:00 | comment | added | Halfthawed | @LiveInAmbeR Then you run into a separate issue, namely, that the organs just won't work as well or at all. You can't have the heart or lungs decentralized, for instance, without losing out on a colossal amount of efficiency. | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 17:46 | comment | added | BKlassen | @LiveInAmbeR I think the requirement to have each organ be able to function as any other organ in this answer comes from the OP's implication that an organ can be severed and the body still needs to function | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 17:17 | comment | added | user71341 | How about organs spread around the aliens body? Their organs would essentially spread across their body like a more complex circulatory system. This would remove the "each organ has to do the work of any other organ". | |
| Jan 16, 2020 at 16:13 | history | answered | Halfthawed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |