"Good morning," Mohinder said, from the front of classroom. It was set up with the usual array of desks and chairs ( Read more... )

"Adaptation," Mohinder began. "Starting from an enviroment similar to this the human body has certain expectations of the outside world - heat, light, pressure, gravity enough not crack your bones, air whose content won't scorch the lungs or leave it asphyxiating before it dehydrates ( Read more... )

Handouts were already laid out on desks at the beginning of class ( Read more... )

"Much of what makes you who you are, what makes you human," started Mohinder, pausing to pick out something from the box of fruits on his desk. "And this banana a banana is hard coded in your DNA ( Read more... )

"One of the traits used to describe something - or one - as living is the ability to reproduce, to pass on its traits to the next generation. Of course, it's not quite so simple," continued Mohinder, passing out notes, and listing the conventional definitions. "And members of a species missing traits - reproduction or reaction - are still ( Read more... )

"We think therefore we are," Mohinder greeted the class. "Or I hope we do, at least here. The concept is an old one, that we cannot be deceived as to the fact of our existance ( Read more... )

Mohinder was a little more than usually disheveled when he made it to the school. He'd dropped the box he was carrying at his feet, and had made a decent attempt at soundproofing the Danger Shop by the time class had assembled.

"The human body is not invulnerable," Mohinder started, passing round the handouts. "We break, we bleed, we fall apart ( Read more... )

"By now," Mohinder started from his perch on the desk at the front of the classroom, "You should all have some idea of how complex a machine is the human body. As long as it's still healthy and functional that's fine. But it does mean there are almost countless ways for it to break down ( Read more... )

"All right," began Mohinder. "Starting with a internally functional human body only takes us so far. Survival and much else depends on responding to what we perceive. For that the human body is reliant on a combination of, let's say, seven senses in order to respond to external stimuli ( Read more... )

"Muscle memory," said Mohinder, from the front of a Danger Shop created classroom emptier than usual of desk and chairs. He threw the tennis ball toward one wall, and - eyes still on the class - flicked the rebound through an open window. "Or where what practice doesn't make perfect, it does make automatic."

( And the rest of class is behind the cut, the tennis ball - who knows? )