In the future we might even be able to articulate the specific messages carried by our interoceptive pathways. Our conscious brain may have difficulty doing so, but science can help by intercepting and interpreting these messages. Someday we will be able to listen to our bodies and the subconscious regions of our brains and heed their warnings. Physiological monitoring devices, along with the computer backup mentioned in the previous chapter, may one day provide human traders with what amounts to a hardened ectoskeleton that may help fight against the machines that increasingly dominate the
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