You’re still abusing the word “use”. How does the bug know? How does it deploy math as a means to accomplishing flight? It does it by instinct. That’s different.
Oops! I’ve been going around with write4u on this for so long, I forgot who I was replying too just that fast. Sorry, morgankane01. 
No, it is not different, it is the same action potential that flap the wings in birds, another master of flight, and even when we flap our arms. The mathematics of the action potentials are the same.
And some birds can even navigate by the earth’s magnetic field, and obviously being aware of the sensory input. That is one example of a very specialized adaption of the microtubules as a navigational instrument
Bacteria have a chemical language that is unique and “readable” only by its own species. Every species of bacteria has a unique variation of a common language.
But most interestingly, all had a secondary “common” chemical language that informed them of quora in other species, and remain dormand or become active.
What did Bonnie Bassler discover about bacteria?
At Princeton, Bassler’s research on quorum sensing revealed a major surprise: Bacteria could not only talk to members of their own species, but they also used AI-2 for interspecies communication (11).
Profile of Bonnie L. Bassler | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0705870105#
Nothing at this level is consciously self- aware of these products of neuronal activity, but lives reactively to neural sensory stimulation, at the macroscopic level .
The rest is evolutionary sensitivity and refinement of data processing.
This is not a response to my “how” question or what you mean by “use”.
How is conscious “using” the same as instinct?
You even say, “Nothing at this level is consciously self- aware”
Enough with the mathematics, write4u! Every other post if not every post all you talk about is math, math, math. There is more to these discussions than mathematics. There’s psychology, neuroscience, evolution, etc. Life isn’t all about mathematics nor is anything else.
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One does not need to be conscious to respond to stimulation. The only difference is that unconscious stimulation results in an automatic response, whereas conscious stimulation results in a decision to respond or not.
Either way, any response is triggered by the same action potentials regardless if they are in a conscious human or an unconscious paramecium.
That’s true. There’s is still a difference between “use” and “instinct”. When you throw out words and defend them, then later change how you use them, without acknowledging you did that, it makes it hard to follow you. It’s not a conversation. It’s me trying to figure out what you meant, and you changing your words.
I’ve gotten lost in what seems a muddle. May I make a detour?
Can we entertain the death of “Free Will” philosophy?
and instead consider the evolutionary view of humans having developed a Free Won’t.
That is, where one’s mind has achieved the ability to short-circuit our instinct driven action potentials for a few beats.
Thus taking advantage of the inaction interval to consider past experiences and imagine consequences, and then acting, not on pure instinct, but instinct given direction.
Yes, I try to use those terms appropriately, as necessary.