Lipton's Sandwich Analogy

In Chapter 3, Lipton explains his ideas the membrane, the “magical membrane” as he calls it, and how it controls the life of cells. He described membranes as being an intelligible life, comparing it to a sandwich made up of bread, a large hunk of butter, and both seedless and seeded olives, something you don’t find on the Subway menu. He shares about the proteins of the membranes, how they connect to the “mem-brain”, how the membranes react to their environment, and how people receiving diseases has less to do with our cells and more to do with how we run our lives.
Out of the analogies he used, one that I found most interesting (mainly due to him comparing it to food) was his sandwich analogy. He compared the structure of a membrane to that