12-11-2009, 02:44 PM
Quote:Then again, perhaps bacteria don't have opinions.:)Probably not. However, I'm becoming convinced that our ideas about organized thought requiring cellular clusters of neural material are probably wrong as well. There is some evidence of computational ability also happening within complex proteins themselves.
Protein Molecules as Computational Components in Living Cells, Bray, Nature, 1995
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