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sillymanbilly t1_jbddt49 wrote

Reply to comment by Juskit10around in Patient with prostate cancer developed an ‘uncontrollable’ Irish accent, showing symptoms consistent with foreign accent syndrome — likely due to his immune system attacking his nervous system by marketrent

What if we later find that our gut biome or whatever is basically holding all the data for human civilization inside, and when we get really sick and it throws off the balance, we can get reprogrammed. Hmmm

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PsychologicalLuck343 t1_jbhkwgx wrote

Diet affects the composition of the biome most of all. It would be funny if we discovered that linguini al fredo made us feel sexy or a big green salad made us more brainy.

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Morgodai_K t1_jbegx1w wrote

I wouldn't be surprised if a collective consciousness is discovered eventually. Haven't there been at least a couple of cases of people with injuries to their brain suddenly becoming fluent in a language they couldn't previously speak?

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Instacartdoctor t1_jbevzhs wrote

It’s in there I’m sure of it… I’ve observed it I’m my family… whenever one of us is sick we’re total assholes and positive we’re right!

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