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If you subscribe to the belief that we're basically a bacterial mat of about 37 trillion [1] cells, each extremely large and complex on its own - it's not too l
by stephengillie 11y ago
If you subscribe to the belief that we're basically a bacterial mat of about 37 trillion [1] cells, each extremely large and complex on its own - it's not too large a jump to interpret the eye as being a 1 billion cell "bacterial sub-mat" that does primitive image capture to support the overall bacterial mat.
[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-372-trillion-cells-in-your-body-4941473/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-372-trill...
- meric 11y agoThat would make us hiveminds.
- justinjlynn 11y agoYou think you decide to be hungry? In a very real way, we are.
- bbcbasic 11y agoThis freaks me out! Whoever me is? :-o
- swayvil 11y agoIt could look in multiple directions too. We're talking a world-spanning bacterial community in constant communication with itself. Its images could be quite sophisticated.