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  From:   GUT 4.0 by Scooter A book of short strories about the microbiome The Precocious Kid and Biomee   I sat cross-legged on my mom’s ancient bean bag chair, covered with actual leather, cracked in about a million places. It was the perfect place for using my old Mac Air - way better than my phone for what I do. I always got home before Mom on any afternoon there wasn’t spring training. Today it was raining like crazy, so no practice. I was really glad because Thursdays are wind sprints day. Some of the more gung-ho on the team were running up and down the basketball court in the gym, but I “missed the message” about doing the gym. When Dad was dying a year ago from that mf-ing cancer, we talked about a lot of stuff toward the end. He told me over and over to never give up on things. “Lucas, stick with football. It makes a man of you,” he’d say. Mainly though he told me to “Stick with your interest in experimenting. You’ve got the mind to be a great scientist.” I really, really mis
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I'm new. Scooter just won me. I just had a great idea!   Click THIS . ON THESE BIOMIC TALES   No one knows exactly how the immense microbiome colonies in us will become conscious, but it will happen. On the complexity hierarchy the trillions of more-or-less coordinating microbes within us are hard to top. They’ve got to solve the network connections problem, but they are well along on that.   Life truth: “Anything of enough complexity will behave in the way we call ‘intelligent,’ and inevitably become conscious.”   Since this biomic coming of consciousness could happen any number of ways, these stories try on several possibilities.  Exciting stuff, speculation. For the sake of these stories, just go along with the premise that this has happened; the networking problem has been solved by Mother Nature, AKA evolution. The biomes deduced that their hosts - thee and me - were in trouble, and to remain fit enough for survival we needed help. Voila, consciousness!  Hopefully you will s