MORE THINGS DARWINISM CANNOT EXPLAIN Astonishingly, insignificant bacteria can effortlessly transfer inorganic substances into organic matter. To achieve this task bacteria employ chemical communication to create hierarchically structured colonies, made of 10^9–10^13 bacteria each. Through cooperative action (a direct challenge to Darwins Survival of Fittest or Competition), they are capable of using any accessible resource of energy and imbalances in the environment to manufacture the spontaneous path of entropy creation. Thus they produce life-sustaining organic molecules for themselves and for the usage of all other organisms. The essential elements of cognition in such sentient biological systems can take into account the interpretation of chemical messages, distinction between internal and external information, and also the ability to discriminate between self and non-self. Ben Jacob and his research group thus state[1] that, “…we reason that bacterial chemical conversations also include assignment of contextual meaning to words and sentences (semantic) and conduction of dialogue (pragmatic) – the fundamental aspects of linguistic communication. Using these advanced linguistic capabilities, bacteria can lead rich social lives for the group benefit. They can develop collective memory, use and generate common knowledge, develop group identity, recognize the identity of other colonies, learn from experience to improve themselves, and engage in group decision-making, an additional surprising social conduct that amounts to what should most appropriately be dubbed as social intelligence.” Reference: 1. Ben-Jacob, E., Shapira, Y., and Tauber, A.I. (2006). Seeking the foundations of cognition in bacteria. from Schrödinger’s negative entropy to latent information. Physica A, Vol. 359, pp. 495-524. (shared from the page of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture & Science)
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