Fig. 4
From: The Intelligent Egg, and How It Got That Way: from Genes to Genius in a Few Easy Lessons
The cell as an intelligence agency. A cell, loaded with localized internal departments with their respective sets of many interacting agents, closed to the environment (top), except for controlled passages and signal detectors littering its surface (a section of which is shown in the bottom panel). Figures by AV Buchanan. For details on this point of view as discussed by the author, and with reference to many other authors’ work, see (Buchanan et al. 2009; Weiss and Buchanan 2004, 2008, 2009; Weiss et al. 2011)