WARNING Vulgar content - R18. <Is there something ambiguous to you with the use of the word "essential"?>
Xi, most words are ambiguous, or imprecise.
W-CDMA was defined in a certain way. Ipso facto, in Goedelian self-referential terms, and in Hagfish Guild self-reverential terms, to be itself, everything in it is essential.
In the same way, one could define a human being in a certain way, as having two feet, a head, two lungs, two kidneys, two brains, with a corpus callosum for them to communicate, two legs, two eyes, a bunch of hair on top, a heart, spleen, 10 toes, 10 fingers [for counting and climbing trees], a penis, or not, two testicles, or not, two ovaries, or not, a philosophical framework, an amygala, pineal gland, lymph, B-cells, T-lymphocytes, cytokines and dendritic cells, not to mention all the other bits and pieces, such as toe nails, eyelashes, teeth, including wisdom teeth, skull, tibia, scapula, anus and don't forget the mortgage.
That reminds me of the old joke about the parts of the body arguing about which was most important. The arsehole won. After going on strike for a few days, the other body parts were begging for mercy, with eyes crossed, brain foggy, stomach aching, legs trembling, skin sweating ...
But joking aside, when considering the patents for each component, and which are essential and which aren't, obviously all of them are essential or it wouldn't be an actual fully-fledged human being. It would be something less, or different if, for example, wings, or fins, were fitted instead of arms.
People are actually, right now, alive and pretty much well, despite missing each of those components. Some are even missing half their brains. Or have had their corpus callosum cut so they are in fact two people, occupying the same body, each lacking certain abilities. None of them are missing all components simultaneously. But some are missing quite a bit and the euthenasia laws still define them as a human not to be terminated.
I don't know what bits you are specially attached to, but my guess is that all of us are most attached to our heads; specifically, our brains, and in particular the conscious aspect of it, and ideally with the pleasure centres still attached, providing input.
When one thinks of W-CDMA, aka 3GSM, one could reasonably most value the patent covering the magical phragmented photon ingredients which QUALCOMM invented, rather than the arsehole designs of the Hagfish Guild. Since it's a self-referential system, W-CDMA has to include all components as designed to still be defined as W-CDMA. So one could say all are essential. But really, Stephen Hawking is lacking a lot, and he's still a person, even though a strict interpretation of "Being Human" would say he isn't.
Lots of people have had colostomies, so the arsehole Hagfish Guild inventions aren't really necessary; one could use a fuel cell to power the brain instead of a digestive tract.
To compare the wonders of CDMA and the cerebral cortex with the Hagfish arsehole, or colostomy bag, and assign them equal value is nuts. The Hagfish Guild invented slime, arseholes and colostomy bags. I suppose that's something and useful in a way.
But you are right, to have a slimy W-CDMA system complete with arsehole or colostomy bag, one does have to have the essential patents of the Hagfish Guild included.
Essential is as essential does.
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