Its pretty clear that the author of the paper comes from either a non-scientific or a barely scientific background on writing style alone, but I think in broad

Its pretty clear that the author of the paper comes from either a non-scientific or a barely scientific background on writing style alone, but I think in broad strokes, the point absolutely stands, and its a point that keeps me up at night. Intelligence (or 'mind') is an emergent property of cells (or maybe even of compartmentalization). While its clearly been useful to study intelligence a level above cells (networks), in biological systems, multicellularity and thus networks are emergent properties of individual cells. We currently ignore the function of individual cellular intelligence in the models we develop based on biological frameworks.