{"id":207300,"date":"2025-02-26T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-third-state-exists-between-life-and-death-and-that-suggests-your-cells-are-conscious-some-scientists-say"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:15:57","slug":"a-third-state-exists-between-life-and-death-and-that-suggests-your-cells-are-conscious-some-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-third-state-exists-between-life-and-death-and-that-suggests-your-cells-are-conscious-some-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Third State\u2019 Exists Between Life and Death\u2014And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0a3xg4M9Oa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we\u2019re born, we live, we die. The end.<\/p>\n<p>But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting. You, me, and all of the 108 billion or so <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> who\u2019ve ever walked the Earth have all been our own constellation of some 30 trillion cells. Each of our bodies is a collective organism of living human cells and microbes working in cooperation to create what our minds view as \u201clife.\u201d However, a growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a60995008\/live-forever-or-die-trying-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">death<\/a> isn\u2019t the end. Instead, it\u2019s possibly the beginning of something new and wholly unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>A growing snowball of research concerning a new class of AI-designed multicellular organisms known as \u201cxenobots\u201d is gaining scientific attention for their apparent autonomy. In September 2024, Peter Noble, Ph.D., a microbiologist from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, along with Alex Pozhitkov, Ph.D., a bioinformatics researcher at the City of Hope cancer center, detailed this research on the website The Conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we\u2019re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting. You, me, and all of the 108 billion or so Homo sapiens who\u2019ve ever walked the Earth have all been our own constellation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}