Howard Bloom Quote

Primordial commuinities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links.... These turned a colony into a collective processor... The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web."

Ch.1 Creative Nets in the Precambrian Era - Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000)