- Don Paterson's discussion of emotions being pre-linguistic. We can understand the tone of an argument heard through walls even when we can't make out any words. Music moves us in a way that no other art form does. [[The Poem - Lyric, Sign, Metre]] - Julian Jaynes' discussion of the gut as the seat of emotions in [[The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind]] - Our gut tells us when we are about to do something wrong. - Scientific discoveries about how important the microbiome is in our gut. The use of fermentation (Kombucha) to improve gut health. - [[The gut is a second brain]] - Does the gut have a role to play in our immune system? - In [[Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion]], Callahan makes the claim that the immune system is the seat of our identity. Is the gut part of our pre-linguistic identity?