Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut View Post
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.
No, but I think that is what happened.

Seriously, communication doesn't make cells any less simplistic little 'robots' that just act by natural laws. The way some of you people are looking at this, is as if the cells understand what their 'bleep bleep' means. They simply have no clue what they are doing, at least not any more than my calculator that says bleep-bleep when I press it's buttons or try to divide by zero. Seriously, I don't see how you guys can get all worked up over a 200-word article that sheds no new light on how cells works.

I hope you guys don't think cells are anything more then simple, (physical) law-bound tiny blobs. Seriously, ask a cell-biologist if you have to.

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juroara: I mean this, stop writing, get off your ass, go to the library, and read some books about evolution. You just don't get it.