COURSE II: Who Are You? Self and Other

Course II explores the different layers of the ‘biological self’. Starting by contemplating the little that is actually known about the mysterious human genome, the focus is turned to epigenetics which offers insights into how genes and their expression are sculpted by the environment, sometimes over generations. Attention is turned to the vast number of genetically diverse organisms that are part of human biology – the microbiome – and how it is becoming clear that the balance of this ecology is an expression of the health of the whole. The immune system is entrained by the microbiome, to distinguish self and other. The intelligence of the vast immune network is explored in detail. The final lesson of the course delves into complexity and systems thinking to help orientate us amidst the dizzying array of realms that coalesce to form the human.

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COURSE II: Who Are You? Self and Other

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