 Originally Posted by Neruo
lol. It reminds me of the awesomely coloured space photographs. Like nebulas with insanely awesome colours. But that is just what you get if you translate infra-red and ultraviolet, or even radiowaves, invisible-to-the-eye stuff, into nice bright colours to get a shiny 'photograph' of a nebula or something. In truth, if you look at nebulas, they aren't as cool as nasa shows you sometimes.
Same here. Cells don't actually make sounds. Sure, they communicate, but we already knew that. The guy just took some electronic signals given off by cells and changed it onto sound. Maybe it gives you some sort of intuitive 'respect' for cells, but I don't see what is so special.
That the article actually insinuates individual cells have the intentionality to be able to 'chat' is just plain unscientific, and extremely silly, to be honest. Don't project your capacity of thought onto some tiny cells that just give off certain signals under certain inputs.
I don't quite think its the same. The frequency was changed to quantify the sound. They were already making the "noise," just not at a level audible to us. For you to say he simply made the simple, electrical impulse into a sound doesn't quite seem to be what the article implies. Not to say you're wrong, but I didn't gather that much from the article alone. Furthermore, I don't think the article implied that he was projecting our capacity of thought onto the cells, either.
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