system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If I keep my chapped and cracked lips shut, will they heal together?
gpt
Yes. Skin cells are dumb. Cell adhesion complexes in general are dumb. If you managed to hold them together close enough while they healed, you could get them to grow together. But the contacts would likely not be very strong, and you could probably pull them apart with very little force. Incidentally, the same phenomenon is at work when your unused muscles get "stiff" and "knotted" - this is from overlapping muscles that should move smoothly across each other forming cell adhesion contacts through proximity. These may be worked out mechanically by massaging, etc.