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[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Theoretically if they don't produce toxins as a byproduct of plastic metabolism, eating the plastics out of our brains could (in an idealized and highly unlikely case) be a good thing. If they don't also eat organic matter they'll starve out when the plastics are gone and our immune system could clean out the debris left behind

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