Recently cell biologists have recognized that each one of our trillions of cells and their component parts act as if it has its’ own intelligence and its’ own brain. In fact, they postulate that the first cell in nature was a brain unto itself.Cells show characteristics of intelligent behavior that allow them to come together cooperatively and form ever greater and more organized structures. Cells form communities, then tissues, then organs, then systems. At each level of organization individual cells display awareness of their environment, and react to that environment in a way that demonstrates deliberate and direct responsiveness.

Research goes so far as to indicate that the much acclaimed DNA molecule, and the genetic engineering industry that has sprung up around it, are really secondary to what controls and conducts cell function, the cellular environment.

The all conquering, magic bullet DNA molecule that resides in the cell nucleus is not ‘self emergent’, meaning that it can not turn itself on and off, and must therefore respond to the cues from the environment. The environment signals the cell and the cell responds by telling the DNA molecule what it needs. The DNA simply facilitates the wishes of the intelligent cell responding to its’ own environment.

The ability of a cell, tissue, organ and ultimately system to interact intelligently with its’ environment is mediated by the cell membrane in terms of cause and effect. Each one of our trillions of cells have a cell ‘Mem – Brain’, that receives and responds to emotional and chemical cues, and just as single cells are controlled by their awareness of the environment in which they live, so too are human beings on the larger scale.