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Re:The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes by unabridged on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:19PM (#15692324)
>The "intelligence" which arises purely from the system construction, not from the system conceiving different plans of actions given internal representations of various tasks.

There may be no difference between these besides the size of the system.

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Re:The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes by red75prime on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:49AM (#15694019)
While the difference between a piece of flintstone and a piece of monocrystalline silicon doped in the specific manner or between bacterial colony and brain tissue could be hard to define (or impossible to define in terms of physics), it exists.
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