Natures wonders: bacterial language (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 16:19 (4146 days ago) @ dhw

"Our results demonstrate that bacterial communication is much more complex than has been assumed to date," Heermann says.[/i]
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> dhw: And so once again we learn that the simplest forms of life have complex methods of communicating, which enable them to cooperate, to create new communities, to innovate. These are forms of intelligence that may be very different from ours, but we only need to think about our own bodies to realize that there are countless intelligent mechanisms which perceive, calculate, decide and act independently of our will and our consciousness...... How the first forms arose is a mystery, but once we acknowledge the inventive, cooperative intelligence of cells, all the other mysteries of evolution seem to me to solve themselves.-Yes, the $64,000 question. where did intelligence and consciousness come from? And your very unreasonable answer is I&C self-invented themselves. That is bootstrapping of the highest order!