The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
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The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
"The backbone of biology and things we call life are just systems that are very good at scaling up the cognitive properties of their parts into bigger and bigger cognitive light cones... The future unified theory of biology is going to be less about physics and chemistry, and more about goals, memories, preferences, and basically terms that you wou... See more
The ConscioCentric Paradigm
The mind extends to the nontangible world, the left-hand circle of the sand-talk diagram, so it is not just limited to the physical brain. It bridges both worlds. Neural processes occur throughout the body and beyond it in the world around—this is known as haptic cognition, embodied cognition, or distributed cognition in Western science. This means
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Microbial populations participate in a wide range of metabolic functions, including digestion and the production of neurotransmitters and vitamins. Some microbiologists have even described this population of non-self organisms as a “bacterial organ.” Others have taken to describing the human body as a “superorganism.”