• MxM111@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The most worrying thing is that this “you” who is in some kind of “charge” is just a figment of your imagination.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The foreign bacteria in your gut had a much more direct audience with your brain than your cells do. Question is, is it an Embassy? Are they Diplomats? … or are they Oligarchs? >!As long as they call me sugar mommy for giving them sweets!<

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    1 year ago

    My cells are dumb terminals and I’m their virtual server.

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    Cancer is when they rise up against you, and your human cells stop being a part of a macroscopic animal and begin a new life as a species of human-dna-having single cellular parasites

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      There’s that whole thing in “Dune” of “he who has the power to destroy a thing, rules that thing.” So yeah, we are in charge, even if we are fairly hands-off managers!

    • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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      I like to think of it as co-habitation. Your “instincts” guide you well because that’s your brains way of saying “okay, look dumbass I know you’re in control right now so let me make you feel some fear so you stop and try to assess the situation a bit more.”