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  "content_md": "Don’t be a BrainBro.\n\n> It is important to stress here that the aim here is not to provide an explanation to the perennial mind-body problem, i.e., how mental states emerge from physical states in the brain. The aim rather is to point out that the very distinction between mind and body, inherited from previous traditions, tacitly confines cognitive processing to the brain only. However, if cognition is defined as information processing, then all bodily cells are cognitive in this minimal sense, not just those operating in the brain.\n\n[Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms ↗](https://frontiersin.org/journals/integrative-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnint.2023.1057622/full)",
  "content_html": "<p>Don’t be a BrainBro.</p>\n<blockquote><p>It is important to stress here that the aim here is not to provide an explanation to the perennial mind-body problem, i.e., how mental states emerge from physical states in the brain. The aim rather is to point out that the very distinction between mind and body, inherited from previous traditions, tacitly confines cognitive processing to the brain only. However, if cognition is defined as information processing, then all bodily cells are cognitive in this minimal sense, not just those operating in the brain.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://frontiersin.org/journals/integrative-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnint.2023.1057622/full\">Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms ↗</a></p>",
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