As I stated in my previous post, the first major content theme in The Atlas of Social Complexity is Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness. Chapter 6 addresses Autopoiesis. Chapter 7 (Bacteria and the Brain) turns to the role of bacteria in human consciousness.
Our rationale for surveying this topic:
The outcome is remarkable.
Not only does this research provide direct evidence for cellular cognition, but it also leads to new ways of thinking about what constitutes a brain, as well as how lower levels of cognition self-organise, from an evolutionary perspective, to form lager and more complex cognitive systems. The mind is in every cell of the body!
Such insights into embodied cognition at levels previously thought non-existent is transforming not only our science but also our medicine, leading to new ways of thinking about therapeutically communicating with our body’s microbiota: from probiotic therapies and the gut-mental health link to our human microbiota and the study of bacterial quorum sensing.
FOR MORE SEE THESE IDEAS, SEE THESE LINKS OR JUST TYPE THE BELOW KEY WORDS INTO YOUR SEARCH ENGINE:
Bacterial quorum sensing -- Brilliant Ted Talk by Bonnie Bassler
Brain-gut-microbiota communication
READ ABOUT the pioneering work of Eshel Ben-Jacob and team in this area
CLICK HERE TO READ THE BOOK
KEY WORDS: bacterial intelligence, bacterial social behaviours, gut microbiome, Brain-gut-microbiota communication, bacterial quorum sensing, swarm behaviour.
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