Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid

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70 points·lnguyen··5 comments

For some reason this makes me think these bacteria or the mechanism behind them are the biological precursors to neurons.

You want Micheal Levin's work:

E.g. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Beyond the Nervous System as Inspiration for New Machine Learning Platforms"

https://media.neurips.cc/Conferences/NIPS2018/Slides/Levin_b...

"What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

Two thoughts:

1) A lot of unscientific tribal belief systems inherit the existence of a networked planet. Perhaps at one point there was a scientific understanding of this, sometime before 6,000 BC which seems to be our cutoff from older knowledge.

2) If there was alien life here, I could see many circumstances where they are intentionally ignoring humans or not prioritizing interaction with us. We wouldnt know and just assume theyd want to interact with us and that we would be able to detect and differentiate them, it seems more likely that populating and surveying underwater and subterranean earth would be more fruitful and more interesting.

I don't understand why you are being downvoted. You clearly marked your post as unscientific, and the idea is interesting.

thanks, sometimes the consensus behavior is a vendetta against something I said in another thread on a different article

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