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Kevin B Clark1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1Cures Within Reach, Chicago, IL, USA kbclarkphd@yahoo.com; www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-clark/58/67/19a; https://access-ci.org.
Abstract:
Microbes perfect social interactions with intuitive logics and goal-directed reciprocity. These multilevel, cognition-resembling adaptations in Dictyostelid cellular molds enable individual-to-group viability through public/private bacterial farming and dynamic marketspaces. Like humans and animals, Dictyostelid livestock-ownership depends on environmental sensing, cooperation, and competition. Moreover, social-norm policing of cosmopolitan colonies coordinates farmer decisions, phenotypes, and ownership identities with bacteria herding, privatization, and consumption.
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