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Bodily Intelligence

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The Evolution of Intelligent Systems

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It may be stretching credulity a little to suggest that cells think! But they do talk, in a sense. They, and a myriad biochemical agents within them, ‘talk’ to each other. Quite unlike the silent servants of an autocratic executive power we have come to expect, they chatter ceaselessly to organise themselves. And they do so, not as a token of resistance, but because by such means they ‘know’ best what is needed.

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Richardson, K. (2010). Bodily Intelligence. In: The Evolution of Intelligent Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299245_4

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