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Brian J Ford

Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge University, CB2 1TA, United Kingdom. Electronic address: brianjford@cardiff.ac.uk.

1 paper in the library · publishing 2017

Papers

Cellular intelligence: Microphenomenology and the realities of being.

Progress in biophysics and molecular biology December 1, 2017 Brian J Ford

Eastern traditions view life holistically, emphasizing health and healing as expressions of a spiritual principle, while Western reductionist science models living processes as digital computer systems. The argument here is that cognition, response, and decision-making in living cells go beyond such modeling. Microscopic studies of shell-building amoebae and the alga Antithamnion reveal a level of cellular intelligence unrecognized by science and not amenable to computer analysis.