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thbobby

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Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Mon Feb 5, 2018, 01:40 PM

Feb 2018

single cells in our body forming a human lifeform and ants working collectively to form a colony. Or humans working together to form a society. It illustrates a phenomenon know as emergence. Any one cell is not self-aware, but a human is. Is an ant colony self-aware or could it ever evolve to become self-aware? Is a society self-aware?

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Human Beings are Complex Colonies of Individual Cells [View all] MineralMan Feb 2018 OP

Which is why it's so important to be kind to colonials... or they might stage a revolution... Rollo Feb 2018 #1

I love similarities between thbobby Feb 2018 #2

There are lots of things to think about. MineralMan Feb 2018 #3

I agree with most of what you write, but I think you re mistaken when you write that human beings Nitram Feb 2018 #4

OK. However, we are made of billions of individual, specialized MineralMan Feb 2018 #5

A rotifer is not a cell colony. It is an organism composed of many cells. Nitram Feb 2018 #6

My own terminology, which I've been using for years. MineralMan Feb 2018 #7