A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...

I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote; and the link(s), the ulrs, which are highlighted too, will be the quote's end(s)...bit weary of quote/unquote!...sheesh...I tried to use a semi colon!

Brownian motion interaction dna

1) Hard wind a-gonna blow
The world of molecules is in constant motion. Indeed, temperature is a measure of the amount of molecular motion. Only at Absolute Zero does all motion cease, and room temperature is +300 degrees centigrade on the absolute scale--so things are really hopping! The technical term for this energetic molecular movement is "Brownian Motion."

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However, the motion of individual molecules at the molecular level is random, rather than oriented as wind is. The life of a large molecule, such as a strand of DNA is much more akin to a ping pong ball placed in a popcorn popper than it is to the placid and majestic helix we often depict!

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There's no "smelling" or "seeing" for molecules independent of binding interactions! When thinking about how a cellular machine works, ask not 'why doesn't it do this or 'know' that, but rather how can a machine be made to function using the limited information available to it via bonding interactions.

Life & Times at the Molecular Level
The University of Arizona Bruce Patterson
http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/mcb411b
http://blc.arizona.edu/courses/181Lab/MoBiByMe/BioMolRules2.html

That looks to be a professor writing about a lesson to his students, hence the chattiness!

Science gives the sense that cells go about what they go about much as atoms and molecules do in chemistry...things mix together without any knowing or sensing of what they are about, in the sense that we know we are hungry and choose to go to Denny's for a snack, which I'll do shortly!

And it's a fundamental irony that my body cells, who are the ones really hungry, tell me I need to eat without really knowing the feeling themselves...or so science would have it...what happens is more like a water duck one sees at the fair...

water dipping bird toy

Drinking birds, also known as insatiable birdies or dipping birds,^[1]^[2] are toy heat engines that mimic the motions of a bird drinking from a water source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird

When I go along with science's thinking, I think of cellular interaction as an elaborate array of dead man switches...when I worked with stand up forklifts, the accelerator pedal was rigged in such a way that if I put my foot on it, the forklift would go forward, but if my foot left the pedal, the forklift would stop immediately...this was a safety feature...one didn't want these things coasting about when one got off to adjust a load!

cells interaction pachinko

Illustrative examples in human societies include games such as chess. Chess pieces on a chess board structure the actions of chess players who interact with each other by changing the locations of the pieces. Stigmergy-based games have been a human passtime for millenia.

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Other ancient games used markers that evolved into dice, or cards, In recent centuries they also included mechanical devices such as roulette and pachinko and then electrical devices such as pin-ball machines and now computerized video games.

Stigmergy enables complex self organization in Multicellular Organisms

http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html

Stigmergy

Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. As such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple agents, who lack any memory, intelligence or even individual awareness of each other.

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On the Internet there are many collective projects where users interact only by modifying local parts of their shared virtual environment. Wikipedia is an example of this.^[9] The massive structure of information available in a wiki,^[10] or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel^[10] could be compared to a termite nest;