Ok, I've been taking neuroscience classes for a while now and one of the biggest things I've gotten out of it is that cells are no more than little machines. I never really thought cells were "conscious" but after all this knowledge, I can disregard this superstitious thought. Cells as individuals are really no more than super complex in-out machines (except there are thousands of different ins/outs represented by different receptor types etc.). They do nothing more than the sum of all their proteins and those proteins' properties (which in the end are all created by and continued by DNA). This isn't taking into account the dynamic evolution of proteins and genetic drift etc. Now, this begs the question... what is consciousness and is it real? We are the sum of 10^11 neurons and the connections between them (a single neuron can have upwards of 8000 connections!). Most of that is hardware you're unaware of which is doing things to make your experience of the world seamless (i.e. vision, sensation, hearing, tasting, smelling, etc.). You could think of a single person as a next-level cell sorta, taking in information and putting it back out.

Can anyone tell I've been studying for finals?
partcleguy Reviewed by partcleguy on . My theory to everything dude.... one thing we never really think of but we are made of of trillions of tiny little animals. we dont usually look at this fact as i just put it because we usually just call them cells and not really think about it. It is really quite odd that all of those tiny animals compacted togeather can create life. Our brain is nothing but a bunch of tiny critters packed togeather. If your baked outa your mind or on some different psycoactive substances ;) really focus and ponder on the fact Rating: 5