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Recently I have been reading about the dawn of multicellularity, and the
different theories surrounding it, specifically Lynn Margulis’ Endosymbiosis
theory.
In looking at this subject I was thinking about where the locus of identity
would sit in a multicellular organism. A single-celled organism is alive, has
individual sentience, and its own will. When it evolves from a single-cell to
a multi-cellular organism, how does this singular ‘I’ become a ‘we’, and how
does this ‘we’ resemble an ‘I’ to itself? How does my body, as a complex
network of different cell groups have a sense of unity when it is …