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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27537921

How much do you think human individuals in the society resemble cells in a multicellar creature? Should a man have cognitions, so how about a cell to some extent? Are we enslaving the cells in our body to maintain the existence of our consciousness, by reduction in personalities and specification in cooperative functions? Would a collective mind of a more advanced and multipotent consciousness consisted of millions of people outperform single human individuals and hence utilize the latter to be pure gears of the grand machine?

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are we enslaving the cells in our body

Whoever wrote that must have slept thru every biology class they've ever taken...

Like, there's some decent questions in there, but they've all been asked for over a thousand years.

It reads like someone used a chat bot and told it to try and sound like a philosopher.

[–] StephenT@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Sorry, not trying to sound like a philosopher or what, but I do appreciate it if you'd like to offer me some materials on it if it's so asked already that much times. I've just been curious and interested about arguments on that and not sure where to start searching for them.

As for your quote, by saying 'enslaving the cells' I didn't mean that a person controls all the behaviours of his/her cells, but rather, having noticed that every single cell is structured to have at least functions to intentionally keep itself alive, cells in multicellar bodies with immune system willingly obey orders for a suicide when needed, which seems to me that an individual of cell is erased from the system for the good of the collective body.

Again I'm not trying to be smart and I wont try to make myself less look like a fool or some. If there's fool in it I'd be very happy to know and I just like to talk about things. So why not tell me what do you think of it?