BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence
Brain Inspired
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I Feel Like an Individual, but in Reality I'm Many, Many Individuals
Bob Greene: Bill Miller's new book, "The Super organism," is about the individuality of our cells and how we're made up of them. He says that each individual cell has its own actual problem solving individual. Every single one of your personal cells, your pancreas cells, your liver cells, your skin cells, every single one of them has a living form, he says. Greene: We are maybe a hundred or more trillion cells, maybe hundreds of trillions, if you include all of our microbes. And it's exhilarating and daunting and frightening because now we have to figure out how is it possible for all of these trillions of cells to work together so well?
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