Paradigm Shift

We’re not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes. Researchers assessed thousands of different molecules in people from age 25 to 75 — as well as their microbiomes — and found that they do not shift in chronological fashion.

For most of modern history, we’ve treated consciousness as the ultimate private property: a little glowing sphere of “me” sealed behind the eyes, owned and operated by a single brain. But over the last few decades, science has started to chip away at that picture.