In some ways humans are simpler than the cells they are made off. Yeah, you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I find it fascinating that

In some ways humans are simpler than the cells they are made off. Yeah, you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I find it fascinating that complexity goes up, when you zoom into a human. And cells exhibit all these behaviours. This is certainly a fascinating notion, but it assumes arbitrary boundaries that have no real foundation in reality. Imagine instead what a staggering feat it is that the very cells that demonstrate all these remarkable biochemical behaviors can work in concert to drive a car! I find this change in perspective to be quite instructive...that "humans" are not made of "cells," so much as collections of "cells" have developed a behavior that we describe as "human."