{"id":1433,"date":"2012-03-18T20:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2012-03-19T02:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:28:48","slug":"who-am-i-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/who-am-i-really","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What really goes on at the cellular level.<\/p><\/div>\n

My body is made up of some 10^24 cells. For those who can’t count that high, let me put that into perspective – it’s a WHOLE LOT of cells! A few of those cells – like those in my gut – are not human. They are single-celled bacteria, fungus, and plants living on my body and the food I intake. These tiny organisms have their own “consciousness” – they appear to have volition and the ability to hunt, gather, escape, and etc.<\/p>\n

How much of my body is human and how much is non-human, then? According to Paul Hawken of the University of Portland, “In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells.”<\/p>\n

WHAT?!!! MOST of “me” is NOT ME?!!<\/p>\n

If our consciousness is derived from the individual consciousnesses of all the cells in our bodies – a world within a world where each cell, creature and plant within that world contributes to the consciousness of the whole – then…<\/p>\n

Hmmm… I wonder…<\/p>\n

WHO THE BLAZES AM I REALLY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My body is made up of some 10^24 cells. For those who can’t count that high, let me put that into perspective – it’s a WHOLE LOT of cells! A few of those cells – like those in my gut … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-feeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}