Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, April 01, 2013, 20:54 (4045 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Monday, April 01, 2013, 21:24


> dhw: Tell that to Talbott and McClintock (see above). This comment does not answer the questions you have quoted. Individual programming? Or a mechanism that enables them to work out their own particular designs? If you think it's the mechanism, you are back to a mental level, of whatever kind.-No I am not. It is all automatic physico-chemical. Nothing mental except the original planning.-> 
> dhw;I see nothing wrong with faith either, except when the faithful accuse others of having the wrong faith, or criticize others because they have no faith. Chance and God are equally irrational hypotheses. I see nothing wrong with exploring other possibilities.-Neither do I, but I am convinced your third way cannot exist. Firmly, cannot!-An example of automatic molecular behavior doing a job:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/04/01/in-nerve-cells-an-energy-source-nobody-knew-about/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130401