Inspiration of Computer Technology

What is the voltage of the human body

Computer technology should be of no stranger to the average person in the 21st century. From the system perspective, there are many similarities between the computer system and the human body system. Hence, I will use the computer as an example to explain the cause of body illness for human.

The power supply of the computer is the driving force for a computer to function. If one examines the specifications of the power supply, one will notice that there is a voltage fluctuation capacity for the power supply to function. Normally, each power supply will function when the voltage is within certain fluctuation range, for example, 35%. Say that a computer system is set to 110 volt power supply, when the voltage given is above 70V, the lower limit of the fluctuation range, theoretically speaking the computer system will still be able to function. When the voltage given drops below 70V, which is below the lower limit of the fluctuation range, the system may not function properly. Say that at this point the user’s disk drive stops functioning, without knowing that the system is under a low voltage situation, it is likely that the user diagnose his disk drive to be not functioning instead of his power supply. For an electronic technician, it is clear for him/her to see that the problem lies in the power supply instead of the disk drive.

Any qualified electronic technician knows that when fixing the hardware of a computer, the first step is to check the power supply voltage to see that if the power supply is working properly. Once the power supply is examined to be in working order, and then the technician will see if the disk drive has problems. Majority of the time, the disk drive has always been working. Once the supplied voltage is brought back to the normal fluctuation range, the system will be back to working order.

If similar situation occurs on the human body, the problem solving process will not be as simple. The disk drive of a computer can be compared to an organ of a human body system. For the purpose of this example, we will compare the disk drive to the liver. If we use the same logic that an electronic technician uses for fixing the computer system, there exists a major problem when we are trying to fix the human body system.

The problem is, what is the “voltage” of human body? If we can not determine the voltage of a system, there is no way that we can prove that there is something wrong with the power supply. Instead, the evidences can only show that the disk drive is not functioning. Hence, the diagnose is that the disk drive, or liver for the body system, needs repairing. Following the diagnosis, the patients try many types of liver treatments, some may even go as far as removing their liver, or receive liver transplant, yet the problem is still unresolved as the problem does not exist in the liver itself. There is a possibility that some livers that are removed from patients may still be functioning. (This may sound frightening, yet this is the fate of some unfortunate patients that wrongfully remove their organs.)

Since modern medicine does not have any particular index for measuring the power supply level of the human body system, from the perspective of an electronic technician, modern medicine when compared with modern electronics, modern medicine is still in the era before the discovery of voltage. Without the discovery of voltage, modern electronics will fail to exist, and obviously no advancements would be made.

A major principle of modern day science is that all theories must be backed by evidence. In the above example, since that we lack the ability to prove the lack of energy of the human body, we cannot use this particular medical theory to diagnose and heal the patient. In the above example, there is enough evidence that there exists abnormality in the patient’s liver. Under these circumstances, majority of doctors will diagnose the patient with a liver disease.

In the above example, doctors may focus their treatment on the patient’s liver. However from the perspective of an electronic technician, it seems as if the technician forgoes the process of checking power supply and goes directly for the disk drive. In the electronics field, this type of diagnosis may be deemed unprofessional, but in today’s field of modern medicine, this type of logic is viewed as the truth and followed by the general public.