Living cells (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 00:16 (4507 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Act like they have a mind of their own. Amazing article of how cells assemble themselves and move on a glass slide. It is automatic protein mechanics, or is it guided? :
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> > > http://phys.org/news/2012-07-cadherin-catenin-actin-exerts-cells-tissues.html
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> > > Fascinating stuff. I am reminded of the following, written back in December 2011:
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> > > "Even if you don't believe in God, you have to acknowledge some innate form of intelligence that enables these cells to get together, to invent new mechanisms, and to keep the mechanisms functioning. [..] I'm not arguing that they make conscious decisions in the way humans do, but I am most definitely arguing that those vast assemblies of cells cannot have achieved their functioning complexities just by being swirled in the water or blown by the wind. There is method in their meetings."
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> > > The thread was called "The Intelligent Cell". We seem to be onto something!
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> > The link I just posted will challenge this idea. Stanford researchers created the first ever complete simulation of an organism, and it turns out that the behavior of the sim is extremely close to what is observed. Bacterial automaton?
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> The info in the DNA is mind-like. True life comes only from life and is controlled by the info in DNA. I'm glad we are learning to copy nanomachines from nature, but the source of inspiration is still nature. I'm not impressed by your challenge, but I am impressed by the ability to simulate.-You're missing the point: a mindless automata (a computer) is able to simulate (rather well) the behavior of a living organism, based solely on the basic rules that govern material chemistry. -THAT is a HUGE philosophical challenge.

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