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Table 1 Summary of the cognitive faculties of cells

From: A systematic approach to cancer: evolution beyond selection

Individual perception/sensing [20, 23, 29]

Collective sensing/cooperation [2528]

Complex communication [23, 24, 27, 28]

Autoduction/indirect sensing through proxies [19, 32]

Memory/information storage [20, 28]

Learning/behavioral adaptation [2831]

Anticipation/prediction [22, 27]

Computation [34]

Directional motility [32]

Combinatorial decision-making/problem-solving [20, 28]

Trading of resources [26, 27, 33]

Sociality [19]