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So if gut bacteria have a serious influence on the brain's behavior, does that make us cyborgs driving a mech?
Source https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-020-1705-z
It makes us an ECOSYSTEM!
We’re not really “human” we”re more like… … a planet.
or a forest, at least (soil, mycelium, roots, microbes, ferns, shrubs, squirrels, trees, clouds, rain, rivers…)
(imho)
My vessel is an ecosystem..... you could really get use to saying that lol
This opinion is beautiful and I will now choose to follow it. It almost makes one feel a kinship with the eyelash mites.