Is the biological self a delusion? | JohnJoe McFadden, Ane Ogbe, Peter Brodin
Philosophy For Our Times
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The New Paradigm of Danger Theory and Adaption
It's very hard to change it as Peter said if just taking probiotics or even poo tablets. People do this, you take other people's poo and a capsule to try to change their microbiome. It doesn't work. The only time you can do it and its experiments have been done with animals. If you sterilize an animal's gut and then feed it with the probiotics then you can replace them and give them a new microbiome. That's really fascinating. This sort of wonder what that might all say about our identity. But in the next broad theme that I wanted us to cover is basically can the new paradigm of danger theory or adaption help with addressing diseases and
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