The protein landscape of the cell constantly morphs in response to its environment
A living cell contains an image of the world because it is born of the world. This image of the world is an abstraction of the cell’s surroundings, organized in chemistry.
Since Proteins in cell must change their connections (morph) to learn new tasks, so must the protein landscape of the cell morph itself in accordance with the changing conditions in the cell’s immediate environment.
References:
Bray, Wetware (2009), p. 10
It is as though each organism builds an image of the world-a description expressed not in words or pixels but in the language of chemistry. Every cell in your body carries with it an abstraction of its local surroundings in constellations of atoms. A basic knowledge of and response to the environment are integral parts of every living cell’s makeup.