I was reading a really interesting article in Scientific American called “Genetics in the Gut: Intestinal Microbes Could Drive Obesity and Other Health Issues” and they pointed out a fact that is common knowledge, but I never really thought about. Microbes outnumber our human cells by ten to one.  It makes me start to wonder, are human bodies just hosts for colonies of microbes?  Are the emerging complexities of microbiota what we call consciousness? Am I really me?