294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

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So that seems to counter the complexification argument. The answer is bacteria aren't simple at all. They live in in networks, they don't live individually and all life is increasingly an interconnected network where all the living things are interacting with one another Your microbiome lives very comfortably off you. So it's wrong to think of bacteria as an individual as simple.