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There are about the same number of bacteria cells in your body as human cells, and some of the bacteria in your intestines, 'gut biome', can affect your preferences for certain foods effectively controlling your mind.
A 'reference man' (one who is 70 kilograms, 20–30 years old and 1.7 metres tall) contains on average about 30 trillion human cells and 39 trillion bacteria,
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.19136
Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201400071
That probably freaks me out just as much as time passing not being fundamental under B time indicated by general relativity or free will being illusory and the universe is more likely deterministic.
Is the universe more likely deterministic? :o
Even when it is not deterministic at a single event, it is at a group of events. I know that sounds contradictory, and there is probably a better way to word that, but for example - if quantum randomness means that you cannot predict where a specific particle will go each time you measure it, you can predict the distribution curve of where the particle will be if you measure it some arbitrarily large number of times.