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Looking at a single-cell organism [1] that shows many attributes of animal behavior, I readily believe in the intelligence of a praying mantis. [1] https://ima

• edgyquant 4y ago
  Out another way the difference in complexity between a single cell (the LUCA) and humans are about the same as the complexity between that cell and the base organics we know are needed for all life (and can make in a lab “trivially”.) I see it as the LUCA were the humans of pre-cellular life. As the solar system calmed and mass/energy from the protostellar disk became increasingly expensive, our grandcell and it’s siblings were able to sustain themselves (perhaps at the expense of whatever non-cellular “life” filled the oceans at that time. There’s a whole tree of life that paves the way to the cell. Unfortunately we’ll almost certainly never be able to study these exact paths as we have with cellular life.