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