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People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)
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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

i'm not sure how flinching from hot surfaces is an example of assigning oneself agency, i've never heard anyone say "yeah i chose to pull my hand away because it was hot", everyone obviously knows that's a reflex lol