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Can you change your body temperature at will?
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The mind can control the body to a disturbing degree with practice, to the point where you have to give cred to cooks who claim all sorts of outlandish shit- of course the people who make the big claims are rarely the same who are capable of performing them but there is for sure something more to be said of the power our consciousnesses than we normally accept.
It only stands to reason (pun accidental) that something as powerful as our conscious minds would hide secrets a more materialistic interpretation of biology does not account for.
For the longest time we thought experiences couldn't influence our genes, but with advances in genetics that turned out to be false- and at least to me it makes sense, something as intricate and complex as conscience surely has more purpose to our organism than "nice to be able to enjoy life".