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I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial.

I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)

>>dmarbl+(OP)
me too! :-)

>>NexusM+b
wrt to the egg - could be excreting chemicals modulating the intracellular medium

>>dmarbl+(OP)
Tech debt in our own brains.

>>dmarbl+(OP)
Maybe it's vestigial. But when I was your age that's what they said about "Junk DNA", which turned out not to be junk.

>>dmarbl+(OP)
Sure, if you think of it as an egg, instead of as a galaxy of electrons and atoms so dense as to have structure big enough for us to give it the label "egg shaped object".

What if it's a "wireless" device?