Who decides?

Who decides?

Mirador de la Memoria is full of questions about what to decide and who decides and how is the decision making process made inside a human, inside a robot and even how god fits into the happenings in our daily life.

On pp.186 of the paperback, Dr Paulina walks around the house to stimulate her intestines. Because “whatever is good for the gut, is good for the brain”. She wonders about the signaling between the bacteria in the enteric nervous system and the central nervous system. Is it “a direct democracy with a majority weighting”, like in St.Gallen? 

She has a point although I didn’t indulge that question and the doc’s hypothesis with an answer in the book. If you’re curious to know how our intestinal flora affects our wants and needs, the mechanism is most likely “quorum sensing”