The Bacterial Bacteria and Ingenuity

The barber of Tintock in her Nobel Prize paper in 1984 she explained that if you put a living organism in a situation that its ancestors had been in before there would be a predictable almost algorithmic response. If you did something that's never been done before it will respond in a completely unique way and exhibit ingenuity in doing so. The question for the 21st century is going to be what does a cell know about itself, he says. He believes all plants and animals and cells have some degree of self-awareness.

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