Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body.
What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.
The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.
Consciousness is a disease.
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.
If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.