All living cells are cognitive

JA Shapiro - Biochemical and Biophysical Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
All living cells sense and respond to changes in external or internal conditions. Without that
cognitive capacity, they could not obtain nutrition essential for growth, survive inevitable …

A revised central dogma for the 21st century: All biology is cognitive information processing

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Crick's Central Dogma has been a foundational aspect of 20th century biology,
describing an implicit relationship governing the flow of information in biological systems in …

Cellular intelligence: microphenomenology and the realities of being

BJ Ford - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Traditions of Eastern thought conceptualised life in a holistic sense, emphasising the
processes of maintaining health and conquering sickness as manifestations of an …

Life's demons: information and order in biology: What subcellular machines gather and process the information necessary to sustain life?

PM Binder, A Danchin - EMBO reports, 2011 - embopress.org
Life's demons: information and order in biology: What subcellular machines gather and
process the information necessary to sustain life?: EMBO reports: Vol 12, No 6 All EMBO Press …

Minimal cognition in unicellular organisms

F DiPrimio, BS Müller, JW Lengeler - 2000 - publica.fraunhofer.de
The evolutionary roots of cognition are older than any brain. Human or primate-centered
cognitive science tends to ignore that words like" mind" and other psychological constructs …

On intelligence in cells: the case for whole cell biology

BJ Ford - Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Biology needs revolution. All my adult life, I have been lost with admiration for the
achievements in molecular biology and genetics, and I have come to know many of the main …

Systems biology: understanding cells

P Nurse - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Systems biology: Understanding cells | Nature Skip to main content Thank you for visiting
nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best …

[HTML][HTML] Conditions for minimal intelligence across eukaryota: a cognitive science perspective

P Calvo, F Baluška - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
What is minimal intelligence? Generally speaking, our understanding of intelligence has to
do with sets of biological functions of organisms that exhibit a degree of flexibility against …

[HTML][HTML] On having no head: cognition throughout biological systems

F Baluška, M Levin - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The central nervous system (CNS) underlies memory, perception, decision-making, and
behavior in numerous organisms. However, neural networks have no monopoly on the …

Strategies for cellular decision‐making

TJ Perkins, PS Swain - Molecular systems biology, 2009 - embopress.org
Stochasticity pervades life at the cellular level. Cells receive stochastic signals, perform
detection and transduction with stochastic biochemistry, and grow and die in stochastic …