Do bacteria have free will?

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13 Dec 2009, 11:22 am

See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 200341.htm

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13 Dec 2009, 12:04 pm

Very interesting article! Thanks for posting the link.

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13 Dec 2009, 4:16 pm

Thanks for the link.

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13 Dec 2009, 4:50 pm

Yes, yes they do. And although bacteria do not usually cheat their friends, the ones that do are morally reprehensible.

Thanks for the article. It is interesting.

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14 Dec 2009, 12:36 am

It's interesting. I'll have to use my free will and think about that for a while before I make my decision as to whether or not I think bacteria have a free will.

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Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans possess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

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14 Dec 2009, 3:34 am

Averick wrote:

Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans posess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

It's a funny word, culture. A culture of bacteria is just like a culture of humans, but only to a smaller scale. Marching germs...

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14 Dec 2009, 3:40 am

Magnus wrote:

Averick wrote:

Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans posess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

It's a funny word, culture. A culture of bacteria is just like a culture of humans, but only to a smaller scale. Marching germs...

Yes, sometimes they march right over us, don't they? Maybe they actually possess us? I've read about how sometimes certain bacterial infections can lead to certain debilitating conditions of the mind.

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14 Dec 2009, 1:01 pm

Averick wrote:

Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans possess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

Bact to the Cult topic

Right now, millions of the little beggars are making my dish of yogourt delicious. Hurrah for free will!!

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14 Dec 2009, 1:31 pm

sartresue wrote:

Averick wrote:

Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans possess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

Bact to the Cult topic

Right now, millions of the little beggars are making my dish of yogourt delicious. Hurrah for free will!!

Now gnash them to death on your teeth, and plunge them over a long fall fall into a churning vat of acid!

Freewill that suckers!

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14 Dec 2009, 4:01 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

sartresue wrote:

Averick wrote:

Does bacteria have it's own free will?? Do humans possess their own free will as well??
There's one thing I do know, bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have.

Bact to the Cult topic

Right now, millions of the little beggars are making my dish of yogourt delicious. Hurrah for free will!!

Now gnash them to death on your teeth, and plunge them over a long fall fall into a churning vat of acid!

Freewill that suckers!

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In many respects life is still nasty, brutish, and short.

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14 Dec 2009, 5:53 pm

Yet we pass this on sexually (and asexually, for those into "that") to our offspring, how evil are we, uh? <.<

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