The Two Snakes View of the body is being included here for thoroughness. It is the next in the natural progression of this series of chapters that describe the human body as fibers emanating from the head.
The theoretical models began with the jelly fish that described the human body as being composed of an infinite number of minuscule fibers. That theoretical model is difficult to use in real life. In order to reduce the complexity of that theoretical model, the octopus was introduced.
Introducing the Octopus View of the body cut the number of fibers that compose the human body from an infinite number down to eight. These eight fibers are much larger and easier to observe than an infinite number of minuscule fibers.
Naturally, any number of fibers less than eight would reduce the complexity of the theoretical model even more. The Two Snakes View of the body reduces the eight fibers of the Octopus View of the body down to two fibers. The Two Snakes View of the body says that the behavior of the human body can be described in terms of the behavior of two snakes.
A snake is similar to the jelly fish and the octopus. A snake has a relatively large head with a long body behind it. The body of the snake is treated as a fiber. Even though the body of a snake is very thick, it still fits the definition of a fiber. The picture below compares a cobra snake to the jelly fish and octopus.
Like the Jelly Fish View of the body and the The Octopus View of the body, the Two Snakes View of the body is based on the concept that the modern human body still retains characteristics of all the creatures on the path of evolution. At one time in the past, the human body was a jelly fish, an octopus, and a snake.
The next picture compares the snake to the human body. The head of the snake matches the head of the human being. The body of the snake matches the body of the human being.
Only one snake is shown in the picture above. It should be obvious that, following the progression of the theoretical models, the human body could also be likened to one snake. It should also be obvious that there is no benefit to
doing this.
The reason for breaking the human body down into the head and however many fibers is to reduce the body into smaller parts that can be more easily described than trying to describe the entire human body. If only one snake is used to model the behavior of the human body, there is no lessening of the complexity of understanding the body. Understanding the behavior of one large snake body would be just as hard as understanding the behavior of one large human body.
By using two snakes to model the behavior of the human body, the body is split into two halves. It is easier and less complex to describe one half of the body than it is to describe the entire body. The picture below is a simple depiction of the two snakes in their approximate proper locations on the human body.
Isn’t it intriguing how the drawing above looks like the cobra snake?
The heads match,
the widened part of the cobra’s hood matches the widened part of the torso,
and the thin part of the cobra’s tail matches the thin looking legs held together of the human body.
