Design Features of Being Human

In order to operate any thing or any process with any minimal degree of effectiveness, let alone its maximal potentials, one must know the “Design Features” of the thing or process in question. You don’t drive a gasoline engine automobile with diesel fuel in the tank for very long. You don’t use an electric toothbrush very effectively without plugging it in. You don’t pound nails with the end of a screwdriver without suffering some damage to the screwdriver, the nails, and, probably, your hand. You CAN use that electric toothbrush without plugging it in, but it would be very inefficient and clumsy.  

So to, you might manage to get a few nails pounded with a screwdriver, but not near as effectively if you had a proper hammer.

Likewise, you don’t do therapy on a Human Being very well if you treat the Being as if it were a machine. If you try to release the muscles in a Human Being as if the Being were a machine, you will get some results, but not optimal results; not Human results. Human Beings have sophisticated kinds of “mechanisms,” but Human Beings are not themselves “mechanisms.”  Even the use of the word “mechanism” in reference to any human system or function is very misleading and potentially dangerous. Treating the Human Being as if “it” were a machine produces machine-like but poor results, just as treating a machine as if it were a Human gives equally poor results.