From a human’s perspective, a bacterium is tiny.

But from a bacterium’s perspective, a human is tiny.

We aren’t bigger than bacteria, we’re just better-aggregated.

I had a whole essay about this forming in my head in a dream just now but this is the only part that seems to have survived. There was also a side tangent about slime molds and how it’s not like we even have any big advantage due to circulatory or digestive systems, when slime molds show many of those same aspects.

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