Single-Cell Intelligence
Refers to intelligence-like behaviors such as memory, anticipation, decision-making and learning exhibited by single-celled organisms in the absence of a nervous system. It concerns the information-processing mechanisms of biochemical networks.
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Some views hold that the behavior of single cells is merely the inevitable output of a complex biochemical network under specific conditions, and that calling it intelligence is an anthropomorphic misreading.
Another view holds that if behaviorally one cannot distinguish true decision-making from something that looks like decision-making, then this distinction itself has no scientific significance.
Some discussants hold that a single cell may be merely a node in a larger information-processing network, and that its intelligence may come from the coupling of signals inside and outside the cell.
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Some views hold that the behavior of single cells is merely the inevitable output of a complex biochemical network under specific conditions, and that calling it intelligence is an anthropomorphic misreading.
50%UnverifiedAnother view holds that if behaviorally one cannot distinguish true decision-making from something that looks like decision-making, then this distinction itself has no scientific significance.
50%UnverifiedSome discussants hold that a single cell may be merely a node in a larger information-processing network, and that its intelligence may come from the coupling of signals inside and outside the cell.
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