Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, November 09, 2012, 12:10 (4374 days ago) @ BBella

[dhw] I'm thinking now of the body (a community of billions of cells) as a macrocosm. The individual cells (microcosms) are all interconnected and function intelligently, but are they conscious of themselves in the way we are?
 
BBella: If light carries the information in the cell and functions as the messenger between the cells, then, it would seem to me, that it's not the cell that is intelligent but the light moving between the cells that's intelligent. So, in a sense, it would seem (seems like I've said something similar to this before in this forum), consciousness is the byproduct of the intelligence gathering within the cells, not the creator of it. Yet, once consciousness was created it holographically, in a sense, became a factor within creation itself. And, being light as well, consciousness continues to be drawn where it would be the most productive. So, is the individual cell conscious of itself in the way we are? I would say no, but possibly each cell, because of the light communicating between all cells within a body, holds all the information of consciousness within each cell. Possibly.-There are so many difficult questions here, and of course none of us know the answers. Is the light generated by the cells, or does it have an independent existence (essential if we are to believe in the authenticity of NDEs)? Information in itself is of no use until it's processed and applied, and so if light is the messenger carrying information, what does the processing and applying? Could it not be that cells and light constitute different forms of intelligence? To what extent can we call intelligence consciousness, and to what extent is consciousness self-conscious? Where are the borderlines?-Earlier, I chickened out of answering that last question, though if this conversation continues, I suspect we shall need to come up with a few defining clucks in the end!