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Re:Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid by novacole on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:03AM (#20332041)
For some reason this makes me think these bacteria or the mechanism behind them are the biological precursors to neurons.
Re:Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid by carapace on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:41AM (#20332436)
You want Micheal Levin's work:

E.g. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Beyond the Nervous System as Inspiration for New Machine Learning Platforms"

https://media.neurips.cc/Conferences/NIPS2018/Slides/Levin_b...

"What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698