This series is an exploration of a simple thought experiment: What if you regarded your body as a separate – even alien – organism, but one capable of communicating, learning, and adapting? How would you talk to this organism? How would you listen to what it’s saying? How could you try to teach it new things? Communicating, learning, and adapting are the hallmarks of what we call cognition, and the purpose of this thought experiment is to reorient your relationship to your body so that you view it not as a puppet whose strings you can pull at will (our default way of relating to our bodies), but as an independent organism with a mind of its own, one which communicates and learns in ways very different from how we typically think of “communicating” and “learning.