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by Daniel_sk 1298 days ago
A cell is not a machine in what most people would understand under this word. It's almost like it's full of agents that each have their own goal and through endless evolutionary selection these goals between those agents became interconnected in such way a complicated way that they play this "orchestra" that is a cell. But when you look inside it's a huge biological mess. There is no central part that controls everything - cells and multicellular organisms are hugely distributed systems.