Talk:Amoebas Have Feelings Too

How the amoebas came to have feelings:
 * 1) Humans make machines with artificial intelligences.
 * 2) Humans become genetically engineered "pets" of the intelligent machines.
 * 3) Humans are engineered to be totally microbe-free.
 * 4) The intelligent machines take a trip to another star system, thaw some human germ cells out of a liquid hydrogen storage tank, and recreate a colony of their "pets" on a planet with no endogenous life. The only culture that the humans have is to be clean, happy pets; they know nothing about technology.
 * 5) After terraforming the planet by planting kelp and a few land plants, the artificial intelligences all merge into a giant MMORPG, leaving the humans to evolve as the only non-plant organism on the planet.
 * 6) Due to several problems with the terraforming including poor control of the composition of the atmosphere and inability of the atmosphere to control the high radiation output from the planet's star, the human population suffers a high mutation rate, never establishes a technological society, and over the course of a couple billion years, has descendants that fill many of the available niches of the planet's ecosystem, including a population of bacteria-like, single-celled organisms.