The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

 (jsomers.net)

120 points | by jsomers 1 day ago

6 comments

  • the-mitr 1 minute ago
    Of possible interest is John T. Bonner's book The Evolution of Culture in Animals
  • dekhn 25 minutes ago
    In some ways, a single cell is more like an entire artificial neural network.

    Real neurons have some amazing properties that individual neurons in ANNs do not. It's still unclear how we can exploit those properties to improve AI.

  • datas 16 minutes ago
    It's an amazing design. Did we look at this to create the electric motor?
  • cvanelteren 36 minutes ago
    Beautiful website.
  • brudgers 6 hours ago
    previous comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777229
  • SadErn 34 minutes ago
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