In his talk Michael Levin points out that all the cellular "machinery" that neurons use to think is present throughout all cells, it's just concentrated and acc

In his talk Michael Levin points out that all the cellular "machinery" that neurons use to think is present throughout all cells, it's just concentrated and accelerated in neurons. In other words, all life thinks. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" (youtube.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Gregory Bateson (cybernetic anthropologist) postulated that "mind" was ambient in Nature, and that evolution and thought are two different aspects of the same phenomenon. Here we have science filling in the details and yes, "brains" (in the sense of smarts, not actual ganglia or organs) are indeed ambient in Nature. And, since self-regulating systems must have models of themselves to work efficiently, and since life is a self-regulating system across multiple fractally-intertwined subsystems that are themselves self-regulating, we should expect to find a "virtual world" of "beings" and other phenomenon. (Which, of course, we do. E.g. Nature spirits and plant Devas and others.)