[dmarble]

I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial.

I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)

[tomcam]

Maybe it's vestigial. But when I was your age that's what they said about "Junk DNA", which turned out not to be junk.

[bluechar]

Tech debt in our own brains.

[Terretta]

Sure, if you think of it as an egg, instead of as a galaxy of electrons and atoms so dense as to have structure big enough for us to give it the label "egg shaped object".

What if it's a "wireless" device?

[NexusMethod]

me too! :-)

[signal_space]

wrt to the egg - could be excreting chemicals modulating the intracellular medium