Inside the Mind of Rowan Hooper: The Shocking Truth Behind Togetherness Revealed
People might be startled that we’re not individual humans. How we think of ourselves is kind of wrong, actually, because there’s so many trillions of other cells within us that aren’t human. And even some of our genes aren’t originally human. A lot of our moods and our health might be directly influenced by the microbes that live with us. Part of our personalities is not something that’s completely derived from human cells and human-only genes, but it’s something that emerges from this interaction with microbes that live on and in us. The self, what we think of as our self, the thing that I think of as “me,” is a product of millions of different organisms plus the human one we traditionally think of as me, all mixed up and merging. That’s something that I think is quite extraordinary. We’re all mobile ecosystems and they produce what we call our selves.
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