11-20-2011, 02:23 AM
(11-20-2011, 01:29 AM)Diana Wrote: as species living in a world with much larger organisms, microbes have evolved along different lines than animals or plants because of their size. It would not seem logical that a microbe would be individuated, as so many are killed constantly just by normal and natural means.
Yes. There is research proving that microbes have a group consciousness.
When a test tube of bacteria becomes immune to an antibiotic in a lab in Japan, for example, simultaneously the same type of bacteria spontaneously becomes immune to the antibiotic across the world in a lab in the US. This has been proven time and again. Bacteria communicate with one another. They seem to have a large body covering the entire planet and behave as a whole, not as individuals.
I contend that the same is true of many plants. It just hasn't been proven as it has with bacteria.