Is any one cell inside the human body its own living organism?

Question

Essentially does each cell think on its own? How does it know how to interact with other cells? Does it have any sort of intelligence other than do the one job it has? How does it know to have that job?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The definition of organism is actually extremely broad and loosely used.

Some will say yes, some will say no. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter.