Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth?
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#2Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
Re: Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth?
#3Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms
I believe that we were well-organized colonies of bacteria was proven long time ago.
We are literally a unified collective of cells.
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#4Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms I believe that we were well-organized colonies of bacteria was proven long time ago. We are literally a unified collective of cells.
Prokaryotes, not bacteria.
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#5Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
I think you’re thinking of a Philip K. Dick short story. I’ll see if I can find it.
Edit: I was thinking of autofac, which is kind of like what you’re describing but arguably it was only a small plot detail.
People get downvoted for the strangest things on here sometimes. In this case it just makes me laugh.
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> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms I believe that we were well-organized colonies of bacteria was proven long time ago. We are literally a unified collective of cells.
Prokaryotes, not bacteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-domain_system
Evaluates to the same concept of we being collectives.
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#7Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
I mean it's a matter of perspective but... we are aren't we?
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#8Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
In a sense that’s very true. However the biggest wrinkle is that most of your cells share a single common ancestor cell. If your body is a community of microbes, it’s mostly a village of close relatives, not a symbiote like coral.
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#9Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms.
Wait 'til you find out that those "microorganisms" are themselves machines...
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#10Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made by somebody else, which I believe has already been explored
Yes, but with a twist: this giant machine worries about its future, its kids, its wealth, its financial assets.