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Cognitive Cells: From Cellular Senomic Spheres to Earth’s Biosphere
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gist
František Baluška argues that cellular sentience is primary: every living cell runs a bioelectromagnetic “senome” that senses the environment before the epigenome and genome store lasting memory. Symbiotic mergers of prokaryotic senomes made the eukaryotic cell, then multicellular holobionts, then an Earth-scale hypersenomic biosphere akin to Gaia. Intelligence, culture, and technology are treated as further cellular constructs, yielding the compact definition that life is living cells and all their constructs.
ideas
- Sentience starts at the cell membrane. Bioelectromagnetic senomic fields, not genes alone, are the fast sensory interface that makes cells Kantian wholes.
- The Lucacene was senomic integration time. The ~2-billion-year lag from LUCA to LECA is framed as hard work merging independent prokaryotic proto-senomes into one eukaryotic self.
- Three field sources compose the senome. Excitable plasma membrane, polyelectrolyte cytoskeleton, and roaming charged molecules jointly generate the cell’s cognitive apparatus.
- Senomes scale to Gaia. Cellular spheres combine into tissue Episenomes and Earth-wide Hypersenomes across pedosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
- Life equals cells plus constructs. From biofilms and organs to beaver dams and AI, intelligence remains cell-generated semiotic agency.
quotes
“all cells are sentient and that life and sentience are coterminous”
“the senome represents the compendium of the reception and initial appraisal of the sensory information that cells receive.”
“cells and cellular assemblies represent a “physics beyond physics””
“Life is Living Cells and all their Constructs.”