Is There Intelligence in Bacteria?

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Intelligence is a way of engaging multiple maps, including the memory maps, to solve that particular problem based on what's come before in our environment. We know bacteria who clearly do not have nervous systems, who do not have minds, and yet they're intelligent. So it's very beautiful to think that there are living organisms that have this capacity of acting according to their interests. And you can't represent or now be cautious of none of that, if you don't have a nervous system. The nervous system is thes the big discovery of nature,. with neurons, you can make networks, and those works can represent imagesr can construct images, and those images can serve to guide you.

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In his latest work, Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.