On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 02:15:38 +0000, *Hemidactylus*
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ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
Quite a while back I think we were on some consciousness tangent where
Martin had introduced the notion of the root brain of trees and the forest >floor internetwork of mycorrhiza that facilitated some sort of
quasi-neuronal informational flow. I poo pooed it at the time but later >thought it kinda nifty.
Well I just got interested in whether our own microbiome composition may
have influence over our cognition or mood via the so-called gut brain. >Intriguing idea that, but be careful when traveling down web-based rabbit >holes you don’t fall into a chamber full of fecal pellets. I’ll just leave >this here for your reading enjoyment:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.815422
I’ll never be the same again.
Last October, I asked for podcast recommendations on podcasts. One of
the links you gave me was to 'You Are Not So Smart with David
McRaney'1 and I listened to Annie Murphy Paul talking about her book
"The Extended Mind The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain". [1] I
liked what she was saying enough to get the book. Some fascinating
insights into how our *whole body* is involved in the thinking process
and how our thinking ability can be depressed or amplified by the
environment where we are doing our thinking.
[1]
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/06/14/yanss-208-how-to-escape-brainbound-thinking-and-take-advantage-of-your-extended-mind/
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