Let's Cure Autism! (Health)

[Ishmael]

If drinking alcohol increases the longevity of Cancer patients, is it possible that cancer is caused by bacteria?

Some drinking tied to longer life post-breast cancer

[Ishmael]

If an antibiotic can kill our interest in the opposite sex, does it not stand to reason that the 'biologicals' within us motivate us to have sex -- not some innate biological imperative to reproduction).

Antibiotic Protects Men from Being Too Trusting of Attractive Women

[Wile E. Coyote]

[Ishmael]

[Ishmael]

Psychological problems now being treated with probiotics.

[Bronwyn]

[Ishmael]

Tell me why you agree. Have you any information to share?

[Chad]

[Mick Harper]

Ach so! Ze Mongols are using ze germ warfare.

[Chad]

It's sentience Jim, but not as we know it.

a-mind-with-no-brain

[Chad]

Three facts:

1. The human body contains 86 billion (human) neurons.
2. The human body contains 100 trillion (alien) microbes.
3. Microbes exhibit neuronal attributes.

Who is running the show?

[Ishmael]

Some time ago I asked the question (and, as per usual, received no responses); how can a trait be heritable and yet not be genetic?

The answer is, of course, microbial colonization from mother to child.

This may be pivotal to understanding human intelligence -- the essence of what makes us differ so radically from other life found on this planet. Here is some data to chew on:

• It has been claimed by some that intelligence is inherited primarily or exclusively from the female parent.
  
• Premature babies are, on average, of lesser intelligence than children that go to term within the womb.
  
• Twins are, on average, of lesser intelligence than single births.
  

While the first fact is consistent with a genetic inheritance of the intelligence genes (placing them in mitochondrial DNA or on the Y chromosome) it is also consistent with a more radical notion: That intelligence is (as the philosophers have long suspected) a disease. As the second and third data points would appear to indicate, intelligence is a disease that requires lengthy incubation within the womb -- the longer, the better; the more normative, the better.

[Ishmael]

What then is the human body?

It is a vessel.

Either it is a vessel that has proven suitable as a host for some very special microbes or it is a vessel that has been built by them as their home (being then a modification of some original, less suitable host).

Of course, this raises an even more radical possibility: That all of life has been organized and constructed by them with humanity being the flower of their labors -- the means by which they accomplish their greatest works.

[Ishmael]

ASIDE: The dinosaurs were the vessels engineered by the losing faction in a microbial war between those with a plan for reptiles and those with a plan for mammals.

[Ishmael]

In Applied Epistemology, we say; same effect, same cause. That is, until proven otherwise, wherever the same effects are observed we are obligated to assume the same cause is at work.

It is apparent to this observer that autistics exhibit symptoms akin to those observed in so-called "wild children" -- such as Victor of Aveyron. If this premise is granted then the common symptoms must have common cause (unless proven otherwise). The cause of those symptoms exhibited by wild children is apparent: Lack of community with fellow human beings.

Thus autistics must, in some sense, be denied this same community, despite their proximity to humans.

How can this be so?