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It's rigged
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What makes this funnier is that we've found that the intestine actually has a ton of impact in our emotional regulation.
The microbiome in it, exactly.
We are meat suits driven by primitive bacteria. Explains a lot, me thinks.
We thinks*
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
Ah, that's the source for this strange short film. Never read the script. Thanks!
You've gotta be shitting me.
I've suspected this, but source?
Edit: Oh, metabolomics
If you want to find more on this topic then the relevant search words would be the Gut-brain Axis or Gut-brain connection.
Wikipedia has a starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%E2%80%93brain_axis
Here's the 9th reference on a site that doesn't require a login:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321136378_Gutsy_Moves_The_Amygdala_as_a_Critical_Node_in_Microbiota_to_Brain_Signaling
Honestly I don't have one at hand, but I remember it quite distinctly as it's tied into research into neurodivergence.
Nevertheless you can die of heartbreak ๐
You also can die from internal bleeding ๐
Or when your head literally explodes ๐คฏ
Or when you are overran by an elephant ๐
Which doesn't make any of the above more emotional
And the fact that the heart has nothing to do with emotions. The brain doesn't even get to be represented in the comic!
We even acknowledge it:
"I have a gut feeling he's the murderer"
"Waking up to learn Hillary had lost was a gut punch"
"I feel a visceral anger every time I hear his smug and smarmy voice, even before I'm disgusted by what he says."
"I feel it in my water" is close enough.
Possibly that even is the joke :P
If the author is that knowledgeable and did that meta-joke, then, respect, but probably most people reading this don't know this, so good opportunity to bring it up.
Like 80% of the serotonin in your body is in your intestines iirc.