On Intelligence in Cells: The Case for Whole Cell Biology (2009) [pdf]
Initial thoughts on reading the abstract: what a crackpot.<p>There&#x27;s a good reason to sub-cellular structures and interactions: we need to have a reductionist&#x27;s understanding in order to better understand the whole. We never would&#x27;ve had any real insight into the cell, or much of our modern day medicine, without all those researchers putting in hard, arduous hours into studying the molecular mechanics of single proteins.<p>Ford would apparently have us see the cell as a antropomorphised black box, attributing all behaviour to &#x27;cellular intelligence&#x27;.