Studying this stuff puts me in a spiritual mood though for a different reason. At the sub-cellular level it’s just a bunch of chemistry. Molecules randomly bump

Studying this stuff puts me in a spiritual mood though for a different reason. At the sub-cellular level it’s just a bunch of chemistry. Molecules randomly bump into each other and stuff happens. It’s all “push”, not “pull”. Yet we talk of the whole cell as if it has agency (e.g. an amoeba is “attacking” other organisms; a bacterium is “moving” and “eating”); we definitely think that about still larger animals. The more time I spend thinking about this duality the weirder it gets.