http://www.kurzweilai.net/synthetic-oscillating-gel-acts-alive Accelerating Intelligence Fri, 24 May 2013 19:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/synthetic-oscillating-gel-acts-alive/comment-page-1#comment-87471 Bri Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:37:33 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=176561#comment-87471 This blurs the lines of what life is. It's reminiscent of my belief that crystalline minerals are alive to some extent when they are forming in the heated matrix that they grow in. Taken another step further and it's also reminiscent of connective tissue to neuron article that was posted yesterday. I hypothesized that the connective tissue was using chemical communication to organize the cells that inhabit that particular area of connective tissue. That in essence it might be functioning more like a neuron than we realize. Who knows maybe sea squirts aren't as brainless as we suspect, when they are attached to rocks. This blurs the lines of what life is. It’s reminiscent of my belief that crystalline minerals are alive to some extent when they are forming in the heated matrix that they grow in. Taken another step further and it’s also reminiscent of connective tissue to neuron article that was posted yesterday. I hypothesized that the connective tissue was using chemical communication to organize the cells that inhabit that particular area of connective tissue. That in essence it might be functioning more like a neuron than we realize. Who knows maybe sea squirts aren’t as brainless as we suspect, when they are attached to rocks.

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