Essays

The Gut Moves Outward In the previous essay, the gut was treated as a sensor array—a system for interpreting food as information. But that system does not exist independently. It is embedded in an environment. And when the inputs remain distorted, the gut cannot function clearly. The signal may

What Modern Food Overrides Last month, I wrote about the gut as a sensor array—the body's first signal line, not just a digestive organ but a communication node. But that system doesn’t operate in a vacuum. It’s embedded in a larger context: the food supply.

The Sensor Array and the Gut The body isn’t a vehicle. It’s not a thing you drive around while the “real you” sits at the controls. It’s a system, and more than that—it’s a sensor array. At the center of that array is the gut.