Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, November 12, 2012, 12:45 (4395 days ago) @ David Turell

BBELLA: How great a chance though, David, that the reason we "self-aware conscious humans" view the All That Is/God/our Maker/Creator, this way, is not necessarily because we/everything is created by a self-aware consciousness we call God, but because we have evolved this self-aware consciousness ability to see a self-aware consciousness that we believe we ourselves reflect and have called it God?-DAVID: It is hard for me to imagine that we have evolved beyond what existed before us.-Then you have clearly missed the point of my analogy. Since you believe in evolution, you already agree that we have evolved immeasurably "beyond what existed before us" ... unless you think bacteria are possessed of a self-awareness exceeding our own! By the same token, intelligent but unselfconscious energy in the course of its endless variations (just like the endless variations of intelligent but unselfconscious cells/cell communities) may have put together the mechanisms that made evolution possible, leading ultimately to our own self-awareness.-BBELLA: The thing is, what we sometimes seem to get stuck on within our conversations here, or even within our own thinking, is the insatiable need to always look backwards toward: first cause? - big bang? - where did we come from? - is there a God? - can we prove or disprove it?, when maybe, we are just asking the wrong questions and chasing our "tale" like a dog. And as my mom always says, there is one thing for certain and two things for sure, we ARE "fearfully and wonderfully made" out of a pliable energy we have only just begun to take baby steps toward comprehending. So why not follow this rabbit hole instead of the old one? Possibility?-DAVID: Some of us do have an insatiable need to ask 'why, how, what if', etc. Mankind has always looked for answers.-Of course you are right, BBella, in that we are chasing our own "tail" (our way of spelling it over here!) like a dog, because we'll never know the answers, but I do feel that during our discussions we gain new insights into different possibilities (and you are one of our star providers). I also get the impression that most of us are deeply conscious of being "wonderfully made" (I'm not so sure about "fearfully"), and part of the wonder is our ability to ask how it happened as well as how it works and where it's leading. "This rabbit hole instead of the old one". Why instead? Can't we go chasing both bunnies (as well as our own tail)?