I think a lot of people don't realise how much of what makes "them" them is gut biome and your brain retrospectively assigning yourself agency for actions your body decided on (flinching from hot surfaces is one).

We just keep finding more ways that gut bacteria influence our diet and behaviour. And if you obey your gut flora and eat sugar instead of protein, you'll allow them to increase which expands their influence over you. Or that part of you, since where's the line?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 14 hours ago

Not that extreme. But the brain has way more "wires" from than to the gut.

And the "you" changes with every new experience, so there's that.

[–] RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

Souls and people „don’t exist“. Because all that you and everyone thinks is you is just your brain taking inputs and making outputs by weighing all its available data. Gut is just another data source which influences your brains actions.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 20 hours ago

Or that part of you, since where's the line?

Brains exist in a chemical soup, but you are still you even if the soup changes. The good thing about this relationship is the brain can control the food and slowly change the gut and in turn the chemical soup the brain exists in.