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And here is another piece in our series - our puzzle of how a State would look like if it was a human body.    We last talked about about lungs as investments , bringing money in the system; and before that, we compared blood to money and the heart to trade .     A major player in regulating blood homeostasis is the kidney. What would a good equivalent be in a State?     Let us unravel it. Anatomy - Kidneys filter blood as Central Banks check on finance and economy from Johnson MD, Human Biology, Concepts and Current Issues, 7th Edition; the Urinary System [https://slideplayer.com/slide/6204959/] Kindeys are remarkable organs. Their functional unit is the nephron, made of the glomerulus, the Bowman's capsule and the renal tubule. The filtration process is carried by the glomerulus, with an arteriole that enters and divides to form a net of capillaries. Those then recompose themselves in another arteriole which exits the glomerul...

In this series of posts we are using a human body as a similitude for a State.           Among many organs and tissues, which ones better correspond to specific State apparatuses?          Which parallelism can we draw between them? Here we will look at lungs and their counterparts in a State, first by reviewing how they are structured - anatomy - , then how they work - physiology - and eventually what happens when they get disfunctional - pathology. Anatomy - Lungs oxygenate blood like investments supplement economy with new money from http://hyperpshysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/ hbase/Biology/respir.html We already compared blood to money , specifying that blood flow is required to sustain cells as money circulation sustains people. Lungs create the conditions for blood oxygenation, thus allowing it to deliver oxygen to cells. When considering economy and society, investments act like lungs by f...

All the components of the human body requires sustenance. At every organizative level - systems, organs, tissues, cells - nutrients must be delivered and wastes removed. That is accomplished through blood circulation. Let us analyze it by looking at anatomy, physiology and pathology through our approach . Anatomy - money as blood, heart as trade, blood vessels as... Everything in the body is made of cells, or a product of cells, and all human cells to live require oxygen and glucose, and more. In our effort of analyzing the State as if it was a human body, we established that individuals are like cells . To survive, cells needs blood to flow, so what would be a good metaphor for blood in the context of our society? What do people need to keep going with their lives, to do their jobs, to form families and in general realizing their goals? It is money.     Just like blood flow is fundamental for the organism survival, money circulation is fundamental for ...

Here we start our comparison between a living - human – body and a State . To understand how close we can relate them, we will begin by looking at what they are made of. We are likely to need a microscope, then. We will analyse structure, function and disease. Cells like individuals Cells are the fundamental basis of any living being. Nothing smaller or simpler than a cell can be living. If it lives, it is either a cell or made of cells. Similarly, in a State the fundamental unit is the individual. Nothing less than an individual person can be a working part of the State. And if it is part of the State, it is either a person, a group of people or a concept thought by people. Cells belonging to the same organism are very similar, sharing a common genetic background and all contributing to the same system; and yet can be very different, specialized in a variety of tasks, subject to a variety of stimuli and stresses. For very similar reasons, just transposed in a different con...

A State and an animal body are two examples of very complex systems. They are both composed of units organized on different levels. Those units are required to efficiently cooperate for the wider system to survive. Given the similarities between the State and a - human - body, the second has already been used as an allegory to describe the first 1 , 2 .      Here, I will apply definitions from biology and medicine as metaphors to concepts of politology. When describing a living being, both at microscopical or macroscopical level, three main aspects can be distinguished: i) its anatomy, or how it is physically made;  ii) its physiology, or how it works; iii) its pathology, or how it gets disfunctional.      All those aspects are directly interlinked and dependent on each other, bearing strict cause-effect relationships. On these basis, I am going to identify the correspondences between multiple organs and systems of a human body and the fun...