Why does the body go into anaphylactic shock if it’s potentially life threatening?
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This is kind of like asking why computer software has bugs if those negatively impact the software’s function.
It’s not “intended”. It’s the result of particular elements of the immune system being tuned too trigger-happy.
E: that’s not to say this isn’t a good question. The important thing to realize is that when you get down to the cellular level, all the sensing and decision making cells do is ultimately simple chemistry — just lots of it, which makes it complicated to study. They’re really very comparable to computers in that sense.
So imagine if you had to program a computer to tell friend from foe from innocent bystander in an active warzone. If your program is too hesitant, enemies will get the drop on it, but react too aggressively and you’ll get friendly fire. Getting the tuning just right is seriously difficult.
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