<story><title>In the gut&apos;s &apos;second brain,&apos; key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belugacat</author><text>This is why the reductionist argument of &amp;quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&amp;#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&amp;quot; of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s now becoming clear that we can&amp;#x27;t just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.&lt;p&gt;Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.</text></comment>
<story><title>In the gut&apos;s &apos;second brain,&apos; key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomcam</author><text>Given the size of my gut, I have at least three other brains</text></comment>