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Your gut feeling is nothing more than the parasympathetic nervous system responding to stimuli. You can talk about it as some sort of magic choice maker all yo

Your gut feeling is nothing more than the parasympathetic nervous system responding to stimuli. You can talk about it as some sort of magic choice maker all you want but it's not wisdom, it's automatic responses controlled by your unconscious mind. What you're really talking about here is the subconscious making changes to your body, and those changes being sent out and reported back via the vagus nerve. You can train that unconscious mind, but it's the same old lazy system one that operates 95% of your mortal existence: It's not literally your gut, that's just how you're experiencing it.

thenerdhead 5y ago
> You can talk about it as some sort of magic choice maker all you want but it's not wisdom, it's automatic responses controlled by your unconscious mind. If knowledge is your brain...wisdom might be your gut. This isn't the first nor last time I've seen similar claims. Here's even a recent study on this: > “We found that lower levels of loneliness and higher levels of wisdom, compassion, social support and engagement were associated with greater phylogenetic richness and diversity of the gut microbiome,” said first author Tanya T. Nguyen, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. > The authors said that the mechanisms that may link loneliness, compassion and wisdom with gut microbial diversity are not known, but observed that reduced microbial diversity typically represents worse physical and mental health, and is associated with a variety of diseases, including obesity, inflammatory bowel disease and major depressive disorder. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/wisdom-loneliness-and-your-intestinal-multitude https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/wisdom-loneliness-and...
- 8bitsrule 5y ago
  Mandatory upvote for rare use of the word 'wisdom' on the Internet.

thenerdhead 5y ago

> You can talk about it as some sort of magic choice maker all you want but it's not wisdom, it's automatic responses controlled by your unconscious mind. If knowledge is your brain...wisdom might be your gut. This isn't the first nor last time I've seen similar claims. Here's even a recent study on this: > “We found that lower levels of loneliness and higher levels of wisdom, compassion, social support and engagement were associated with greater phylogenetic richness and diversity of the gut microbiome,” said first author Tanya T. Nguyen, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. > The authors said that the mechanisms that may link loneliness, compassion and wisdom with gut microbial diversity are not known, but observed that reduced microbial diversity typically represents worse physical and mental health, and is associated with a variety of diseases, including obesity, inflammatory bowel disease and major depressive disorder. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/wisdom-loneliness-and-your-intestinal-multitude https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/wisdom-loneliness-and...

8bitsrule 5y ago
Mandatory upvote for rare use of the word 'wisdom' on the Internet.