Have been always fascinated thinking about free will! There have been many experiments in the recent past using fMRI and PET to show that free will is a suspect and our decisions are made before the brain has registered the activity! Without going into the technicality I wish to state that i fail to completely understand these experiments. All they are saying is that there is perceptible time difference between the brain recording the activity versus the actual act being done. Will welcome thoughts on this from laymen and experts!
I like to believe in free will and think that i am in control of my life.
This belief has been shaken by my recent reading about mind controlling infections and fungi! Toxoplasma gondii infects both cats and rats. It needs both to complete its life cycle. Rats get infected through raw meat or cat feces. Once inside the rat it grows to maturity without harming it, but to complete its life cycle it now needs to infest cat. Things get interesting here. Toxoplasma makes rats enjoy being fearless by raising the dopamine level in amygdala. The fearless rat becomes an easy prey for the cat and this helps our hero toxoplasma to get into cat. Now toxoplasma also infects humans! It has been documented that it can cause humans to behave differently.
Fungus Claviceps purpurea produces natural precursor to LSD! Will refrain from mentioning more about LSD as of now. But fungi have mind bending properties and this is well documented in ants and mosquitoes.
Now need to go and check what am i infected with! Digital worm......
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