I could go off about the whole "homunculus fallacy" in a highfalutin way but what it boils down to is your body doesn't have its own brain, you ARE your body's brain, and if you think about it that's actually terrifying You're all alone in therehttps://twitter.com/porglezomp/status/1255015552038428672 …
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You know what's scarier than the fantasy of many other voices and spirits inhabiting your body and making you do things against your will The reality that there aren't any and it really is just you
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"Why couldn't evolution have given my body a better system for taking care of itself than autonomic immune response, one that's actually intelligent" It did It's you That's literally what you are, that's your job Evolution is a mindless force and you're the best it could do
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Sorry about that
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I had a book about the body’s defenses against disease as a kid—mucous, earwax, skin, immune system etc. It was great. The last entry was “the brain.” They were quite emphatic that good decisionmaking was the most important means or avoiding germs!
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Yeah so the rest of the immune system is an amazing feat of evolution that nonetheless has some really obvious problems and when it goes wrong can harm the body quite spectacularly All of that goes tenfold for the brain
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I honestly don't know if "anxiety is lupus of the amygdala" or "lupus is like if your immune system had anxiety" makes the better metaphor A panic attack is a mental cytokine storm/a cytokine storm is your white blood cells having a panic attack
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak
(And looking at mental health in the face of COVID-19 the growing consensus "It's not the virus itself that kills you but the immune response" feels like an idea that works on multiple levels As above, so below)
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And then those who recover from COVID-19 are immunocompromised Their T-cell counts are depressed The system burned up so many resources on that last threat that when the next one comes it doesn't have the spoons to respond
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak
(Leaving aside the abstract parallels, the virus also literally does attack the brain and impair its function causing effects similar to clinical depression It really is all one system - as obvious and trite a fact as it is, you are your body's brain)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak
yeah "sense of smell" is not in your nose :)
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