<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:56 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm confident that omitting data from the original body won't have any <br>
significant effect on an uploaded mind. Apart from vague statements <br>
about the body contributing to our consciousness, or our minds <br>
'extending into' the body, I've not heard of any evidence, or convincing <br>
theory, to the contrary.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A lengthy article about exactly this topic came across my inbox just today. (I'm not sure if it's paywalled; please let me know if you can't read it.)</div><div><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/meet-psychobiome-gut-bacteria-may-alter-how-you-think-feel-and-act?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-05-07&et_rid=17038235&et_cid=3318359">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/meet-psychobiome-gut-bacteria-may-alter-how-you-think-feel-and-act?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-05-07&et_rid=17038235&et_cid=3318359</a> </div></div></div>