Genome complexity: DNA 3D layer of gene control (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 08:56 (2536 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: IF we could show molecules think, that would support your vision of the reality of life. Separated out from a living environment, the individual molecules just sit there. Their function only appears in the full milieu of life

dhw: What do you expect them to do - grow legs and start looking for their buddies? Of course their function only appears in the full milieu of life! If someone put your brain in a glass jar, do you think it would do anything other than sit in the glass jar? You omitted the continuation: All living communities depend on their individual members cooperating, and all living bodies are living communities of living communities. That doesn’t mean the individual members don’t think, even if their thinking powers are limited to the fulfilment of particular functions.

DAVID: Exactly my point. That is why life is a miracle, all those dead molecules coming to life in the right arrangement. You don't want to see the miracle, because it implies you have to accept God!

I thought your point was that cells can’t think. How on earth you can believe, after all these years of discussion, that I don’t see the miracle of life just because I offer the hypothesis that cells may have a (possibly God-given) intelligence, is quite beyond me.