I suppose the question could be posed relative to any higher animal . My unvarni
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Question
I suppose the question could be posed relative to any higher animal .
My unvarnished question and maybe more palatable as "thought experiment"
I recall in past that humans can last about one month with no food.
If one sets aside medical complications , how long could a person live if somehow he had to live on amputations of his own body. I assume that piecemeal would too much of a shock . What if , for example , he fed on legs and arms ?
Sorry for this one but made for interesting discussion as to equilibrium of energy
Explanation / Answer
To work out how long someone could survive by eating their own limbs, we need to make a number of assumptions.
Firstly, we assume that the surgery and subsequent possible infection itself didn