Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, November 18, 2012, 20:46 (4389 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: 2) The impersonality of Nature suggests the absence, lack of interest, insensitivity, or non-existence of a god. This impersonality also fits in perfectly with the concept of an intelligent but unself-conscious first cause.-DAVID: Your 2) is a problem for me: Nature in its totality and in the progress of evolution arrived at US. That is not impersonal and we are self-aware. As Paul Davies has pointed out in his famous quote, that is a fact of tremendous significance.-The fact that we are self-aware is certainly of tremendous significance (to us), but it does not mean that Nature is aware of us, let alone that it consciously cares about us. The fact that evolution arrived at us does not mean that the forces which drive evolution ... perhaps your unknown mechanism in DNA or my "intelligent cell", plus the environment ... are aware of us or consciously care about us. That is what I mean by impersonal.