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It's also worth questioning in which direction the causality flows. If it's reasonable to expect diet and activity levels to have microbial effects, and it is
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
It's also worth questioning in which direction the causality flows.
If it's reasonable to expect diet and activity levels to have microbial effects, and it is reasonable to expect the psychopathology in question to have an effect on activity levels and diet; then whatever microbial differences you find between sufferers and non-sufferers could just as easily be the consequence as the cause of the pathology.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoIs there anything that flows both ways? When it comes to human behavior I've read that faking it and smiling more makes you feel happier, and happier people smile more. Almost like your brain goes, "I'm smiling so I must be happy right now."
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYeah sure, it's pretty common in physics and everywhere. The notion of cause and effect is closer to a legal concept than a physical one. If you kick a ball, it begins to roll not only because it was kicked, but because it was round, solid, not made out of lead, etc. Further the presence of the ball may have induced you to kick it. Surely you don't go around kicking empty air. But we tend to have a sort of simplified view where there is an active cause acting on a passive world to have an effect.