Functional Requirements Document (FRD)

1. Purpose

This document outlines the core functional requirements for version 1.0 of the human body, focusing strictly on essential features needed for baseline operation, survival, interaction, and reproduction.

2. Scope

The requirements pertain to a single specimen of an adult human, detailing systems, features, and performance criteria. The design supports both male and female configurations.

3. Functional Requirements

3.1 Structural and Physical Form

• Skeletal Framework:
  • Rigid internal skeleton for structure, protection, and mobility.
  • Supports upright posture (bipedal locomotion).
  • Composed of bone, joints, and connective tissue.
• Musculature:
  • Paired skeletal muscles for voluntary movement.
  • Smooth and cardiac muscle for involuntary functions (e.g. heart, digestion).
• Integumentary System (Skin, Hair, Nails):
  • Multi-layer skin protects internal systems, regulates temperature, provides sensory input.
  • Hair and nails for additional protection and sensory input.
• Physical Dimensions:
  • Height range: 1.5m – 2m (adults).
  • Weight range: 45kg – 100kg (adults; variable by sex/configuration).

3.2 Sensory Systems

• Vision:
  • Binocular color vision with adjustable focus (20/20 standard).
  • Adaptation to variable light conditions.
• Hearing:
  • Auditory range: approx. 20 Hz – 20,000 Hz.
  • Stereo perception, directional detection.
• Touch:
  • Haptic sensors in skin for pressure, temperature, vibration, and pain.
• Smell:
  • Olfactory detection for thousands of odorants.
• Taste:
  • Taste receptors for sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

3.3 Core Life Support

• Respiratory System:
  • Continuous intake of O₂, output of CO₂.
  • Normal at-rest breathing: 12-20 breaths/minute.
• Cardiovascular System:
  • Closed circulatory system with heart (4 chambers), arteries, veins, capillaries.
  • Baseline resting heart rate: 60-100 bpm.
• Digestive System:
  • Ingestion, digestion, nutrient absorption, and waste excretion.
  • Oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, anus.
• Renal/Urinary System:
  • Blood filtration, regulation of fluids/electrolytes.
  • Kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra.
• Immune System:
  • Cellular and humoral defenses against pathogens.
  • Fast-acting innate, slower adaptive responses.
• Thermoregulation:
  • Homeostatic mechanisms to maintain core temperature (36.5–37.5°C).

3.4 Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction:
  • Male and female reproductive systems, gamete production.
  • Fertilization, gestation (female), and birth.

3.5 Locomotion and Manipulation

• Bipedal Locomotion:
  • Walking, running, jumping, climbing.
• Manipulation:
  • Two arms with opposable thumbs for gripping and tool use.
  • Dexterity for precise object control and creation.

3.6 Cognition and Communication

• Brain and Nervous System:
  • Central and peripheral nervous systems for information processing, coordination, instinct, and reflexes.
• Consciousness:
  • Self-awareness, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion.
• Language:
  • Vocal apparatus (larynx, tongue, lips).
  • Ability to produce, understand, and interpret spoken and written language.
• Social Interaction:
  • Interpretation of body language, facial expression, emotional cues.

3.7 Safety and Self-Preservation

• Pain/Warning Systems:
  • Reflexive and conscious response to harmful stimuli.
• Healing:
  • Ability to repair superficial damage (skin, bone, muscle).
• Escape/Evasion Reflexes:
  • Fight or flight mechanism; enhanced response under threat.

3.8 Energy and Maintenance

• Metabolic Regulation:
  • Conversion of food to energy and structural components.
  • Storage of excess energy (adipose tissue) and mobilization under deprivation.
• Sleep:
  • Periodic rest cycles for neural and physiological regeneration (approx. 6-9 hours/24h).

4. Non-Functional Requirements

• Durability: Operates effectively in broad environmental conditions (–20°C to 40°C).
• Maintainability: Self-repair (wound healing), adaptability to moderate environmental and nutritional changes.
• Interoperability: Ability to interact and reproduce with other humans.
• Usability: Intuitive interface (proprioception, sensory feedback).

5. Regulatory & Compliance

• Compliance with biological standards to minimize genetic disorders, maximize viability into adulthood, and ensure safe reproduction.

This document can be further expanded for subsystem-level requirements or optimized for future (v2.0+) enhancements in cognitive, physical, or biological areas.

a new state where everything will start to go your way.

It’s time.

You had enough lessons.

You did the work.

You overcame so much.

You believed even when it was hard to.

You never gave up.

You pushed through it all.

Now it’s your turn to receive in a major way.

IDIL AHMED | THESPIRITUALMAGIC

The below list was published by Sam Altman in 2015, but serves as a great refresher of what matters most…

1) Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances. Don’t lose touch with old friends. Occasionally stay up until the sun rises talking to people. Have parties.

2) Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

3) How to succeed: pick the right thing to do (this is critical and usually ignored), focus, believe in yourself (especially when others tell you it’s not going to work), develop personal connections with people that will help you, learn to identify talented people, and work hard. It’s hard to identify what to work on because original thought is hard.

4) On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work. Work very hard—a surprising number of people will be offended that you choose to work hard—but not so hard that the rest of your life passes you by. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty good place. Figure out your own productivity system—don’t waste time being unorganized, working at suboptimal times, etc. Don’t be afraid to take some career risks, especially early on. Most people pick their career fairly randomly—really think hard about what you like, what fields are going to be successful, and try to talk to people in those fields.

5) On money: Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful. In almost all ways, having enough money so that you don’t stress about paying rent does more to change your wellbeing than having enough money to buy your own jet. Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I’ve spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.

6) Talk to people more. Read more long content and less tweets. Watch less TV. Spend less time on the Internet.

7) Don’t waste time. Most people waste most of their time, especially in business.

8) Don’t let yourself get pushed around. As Paul Graham once said to me, “People can become formidable, but it’s hard to predict who”. (There is a big difference between confident and arrogant. Aim for the former, obviously.)

9) Have clear goals for yourself every day, every year, and every decade.

10) However, as valuable as planning is, if a great opportunity comes along you should take it. Don’t be afraid to do something slightly reckless. One of the benefits of working hard is that good opportunities will come along, but it’s still up to you to jump on them when they do.

11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people. Work for them and hire them (in fact, one of the most satisfying parts of work is forging deep relationships with really good people). Try to spend time with people who are either among the best in the world at what they do or extremely promising but totally unknown. It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

12) Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most people are at it. Get rid of distractions in your life. Develop very strong ways to avoid letting crap you don’t like doing pile up and take your mental cycles, especially in your work life.

13) Keep your personal burn rate low. This alone will give you a lot of opportunities in life.

14) Summers are the best.

15) Don’t worry so much. Things in life are rarely as risky as they seem. Most people are too risk-averse, and so most advice is biased too much towards conservative paths.

16) Ask for what you want.

17) If you think you’re going to regret not doing something, you should probably do it. Regret is the worst, and most people regret far more things they didn’t do than things they did do. When in doubt, kiss the boy/girl.

18) Exercise. Eat well. Sleep. Get out into nature with some regularity.

19) Go out of your way to help people. Few things in life are as satisfying. Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.

20) Youth is a really great thing. Don’t waste it. In fact, in your 20s, I think it’s ok to take a “Give me financial discipline, but not just yet” attitude. All the money in the world will never get back time that passed you by.

21) Tell your parents you love them more often. Go home and visit as often as you can.

22) This too shall pass.

23) Learn voraciously.

24) Do new things often. This seems to be really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the perception of time, increase happiness, and keep life interesting, but it seems to prevent people from calcifying in the ways that they think. Aim to do something big, new, and risky every year in your personal and professional life.

25) Remember how intensely you loved your boyfriend/girlfriend when you were a teenager? Love him/her that intensely now. Remember how excited and happy you got about stuff as a kid? Get that excited and happy now.

26) Don’t screw people and don’t burn bridges. Pick your battles carefully.

27) Forgive people.

28) Don’t chase status. Status without substance doesn’t work for long and is unfulfilling.

29) Most things are ok in moderation. Almost nothing is ok in extreme amounts.

30) Existential angst is part of life. It is particularly noticeable around major life events or just after major career milestones. It seems to particularly affect smart, ambitious people. I think one of the reasons some people work so hard is so they don’t have to spend too much time thinking about this. Nothing is wrong with you for feeling this way; you are not alone.

31) Be grateful and keep problems in perspective. Don’t complain too much. Don’t hate other people’s success (but remember that some people will hate your success, and you have to learn to ignore it).

32) Be a doer, not a talker.

33) Given enough time, it is possible to adjust to almost anything, good or bad. Humans are remarkable at this.

34) Think for a few seconds before you act. Think for a few minutes if you’re angry.

35) Don’t judge other people too quickly. You never know their whole story and why they did or didn’t do something. Be empathetic.

36) The days are long but the decades are short.

Neat article over on Ted.com about how to age joyfully.

Here are the article’s key points:

1. Seek out awe
2. Get a culture fix
3. Stimulate your senses
4. Buy yourself flowers
5. Try a time warp
6. Maximize mobility
7. Refeather your nest
8. Stay up on tech

Let them grow old with the same love that they let you grow … let them speak and tell repeated stories with the same patience and interest that they heard yours as a child … let them overcome, like so many times when they let you win … let them enjoy their friends just as they let you … let them enjoy the talks with their grandchildren, because they see you in them … let them enjoy living among the objects that have accompanied them for a long time, because they suffer when they feel that you tear pieces of this life away … let them be wrong, like so many times you have been wrong and they didn’t embarrass you by correcting you …

LET THEM LIVE and try to make them happy the last stretch of the path they have left to go; give them your hand, just like they gave you their hand when you started your path!

“Honor your mother and father and your days shall be long upon the earth”. – God

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Most people realize that the mind and body are connected into a feedback loop. “A healthy mind in a healthy body” is why psychologists and physicians alike recommend sensible eating and regular exercise.

Neuroscientists, however, recommend a different approach. Because they know that body-centric lifestyle changes (like diet and exercise) are difficult to maintain, they recommend starting with the mind. And they’ve identified the one thought that, when regularly focused upon, is most likely to propel your mind and body into an upward spiral.

That thought? Gratitude.

Yes, that sounds all crunchy granola, but there’s actually extensive research into the positive mental and physical effect of that specific thought and emotion, according to a fascinating article published by the Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association. Here are some highlights:

1. Gratitude makes you more likely to exercise.

According to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people who keep gratitude journals “reported fewer health complaints, more time exercising, and fewer symptoms of physical illness.” 

2. Gratitude reduces your stress level.

According to a study published by National Center for Biotechnology Information“cultivating appreciation and other positive emotions showed lower levels of stress hormones [specifically] a 23 percent reduction in cortisol and 100 percent increase in DHEA/DHEAS levels.”

3. Gratitude improves the quality of your sleep.

According to a study conducted at the University of Manchester and published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, regularly focusing on gratitude and thankfulness “improved quality of sleep and [resulted in] longer sleep hours.”

4. Gratitude increases your emotional well-being.

According to studies published in the Journal of Research in Personality,  gratitude leads to lower depression and higher levels of social support while making you less likely to consider suicide.

5. Gratitude makes your heart stronger and healthier.

According to research conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, the presence of gratitude in a patient “may independently predict superior cardiovascular health.” Other studies show that gratitude increases the physical activity and therefore the speed of recovery for heart patients while reducing their inflammatory biomarkers.

6. Gratitude makes you a more effective leader.

According to a Wharton study, grateful leaders “motivated employees to become more productive [because] when employees feel valued, they have high job satisfaction, engage in productive relationships, are motivated to do their best, and work toward achieving the company’s goals.”

In some of the studies, participants kept a gratitude journal in which they’d list at the end of the day all the reasons they felt grateful. That’s a good technique, but you can feel gratitude all day by simply asking yourself, “What can I feel grateful for right now, right here?” Your brain will come up with an answer.