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Another cool perspective is that simple organisms evolved to coordinate with each other to build complex organisms that could protect the simple organisms in ho
by vlovich123 3y ago
Another cool perspective is that simple organisms evolved to coordinate with each other to build complex organisms that could protect the simple organisms in hostile environments they might not / would take longer to explore. Think about all the gut bacteria that survives in humanity during reproduction and viruses and bacteria that invade and hitch rides. You can view humans as the life form or you can view the bacteria within us as the life form and humans are the organic machine they’ve constructed and control (eg look at how the gut/brain connection can effect your mood and decision making without you even being conscious to it)
- pocketarc 3y agoI think that is a far more fun way of looking at it! But the bacteria aren't the whole story - we also have our own cells, all doing their thing and all participating (even if bacteria in us are -also- participating). We're just groups of trillions of cells all working together to keep themselves alive and reproducing. And then we go work together with other blobs of trillions of cells, just to further that goal: survival of the cells. These groups of cells that started working together many, many billions of generations ago, are now looking at space exploration, colonising other planets, and wondering if there are other big groups of cells on other planets. There's no way they'd have gotten there if they'd kept living alone as single-celled organisms. That's fun to think about.
- lurker616 3y agoSo each of us is basically an AGI for the tiny cells
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