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BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence
Brain Inspired
Cellular Intelligence - The Origin of Life
An individual cell is not going to leave a fossil. Why do we know that cells are self-aware? Because they'll trade resources for each other's benefit. These biofilms are what actually cause infectious disease in humans, not individual microbes. A cell is aware of its own status and holds itself against an agitating environment. It knows that others are like it, and it trades resources freely with it. That's how we know they're intelligent. We impute our intelligence as intelligence. The world actually works through cooperation compared to competition.
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