Such NCC research has proven that none of your consciousness resides in your gut, even though that’s the location of your enteric nervous system with its whopping half-billion neurons that compute how to optimally digest your food; feelings such as hunger and nausea are instead produced in your brain. Similarly, none of your consciousness appears to reside in the brainstem, the bottom part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord and controls breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. More shockingly, your consciousness doesn’t appear to extend to your cerebellum (figure 8.3), which
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