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Rick Rubin: How to Access Your Creativity

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Are we vehicles for our gut microbiota, not the other way around.

The gut microbiota plays a significant role in our biology, potentially influencing brain function, decision-making, and appetite regulation. Rather than viewing ourselves as the primary agents controlling our actions, there is a perspective that suggests we may be the vehicles for our gut microbiota, which could be manipulating us for their own survival. Interactions such as physical touch and social bonding might actually serve to facilitate the exchange of these microorganisms. The experience of discomfort in extreme situations, such as the heat of a sauna, could stem from the microbiota reacting to stressors and signaling for us to escape. Overall, this challenges conventional understandings of intelligence and agency, proposing that our behaviors might be more influenced by our microbiome than we generally acknowledge.

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