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Subtle Mind-Altering Parasites & Infections 2017-08-09 08:34:00 Post No. 9096025
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I wonder if parasites and infections have a greater effect on our minds than we realize.
Up to half of the world's population could be infected with toxoplasmosis.
Beyond the initial symptoms, how could we determine if this parasite is actually effecting our moods and decision making? It seems too difficult to quantify our qualitative moods, and that statistics of the potentially linked effects would only come about when serious consequences result from our actions. Our major life decisions could come down to this parasite's influence over us...
And what about "ATCV-1"? It supposedly can produce changes in your cognitive abilities.
Usually when I think of human diseases, I think of how they impact the body. However, an infectious agent which subtlety changing the mind...there's something about it that both fascinates and alarms me. It seems like it is within the realm of possibilities that we will eventually encounter a parasite (whether natural or artificially created) which can take complete control over our minds without killing us.
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Imagine
If somehow,
some
way
we could compare people with and without it, or a person before and after infection
and
if this parasite is actually effecting our moods and decision making, it would be apparent, and if it wasnt,,,,,,,
it is not important.
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>>9096025
Toxoplasmosa Gondii in rats.
One answer to all the questions.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5iZFHcRK68
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>>9096025
uhh I think it was recently discovered that people infected with toxoplasmosis have a higher affinity for BDSM. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704916659746
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>>9096025
>I wonder if parasites and infections have a greater effect on our minds than we realize.
here's a great paper to begin your inquiry anon
>Humans as Superorganisms:
>How Microbes, Viruses, Imprinted Genes and Other Selfish Entities Shape Our Behavior
>Psychologists and psychiatrists tend to be little aware that: (a) microbes in our brain and gut are capable of altering our behavior; (b) viral DNA that was incorporated into our DNA millions of years ago is implicated in mental disorders; (c) many of us carry the cells of another human in our brains; and (d) under the regulation of virus-like elements, the paternally-inherited and maternally-inherited copies of some genes compete for domination in the offspring, on whom they have opposite physical and behavioral effects. This paper provides a broad overview, aimed at a wide readership, of the consequences of our coexistence with these selfish entities. The overarching message is that we are not unitary individuals but superorganisms, built out of both human and non-human elements; it is their interaction that determines who we are.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691615583131
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>>9096025
There is a relation between toxosplamosis, promiscuity and homosexuality. Basically it makes you more sociable and wanting to mate with anything so it can spread.
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>>9096921
>Basically it makes you more sociable and wanting to mate with anything so it can spread.
Yes, this is how life works. You're either strong or sociable. Or OP.
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