By Anil Seth — 2016
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.
Read on aeon.co
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As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.