Panpsychism (Evolution)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 21:19 (4356 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I should add that by cell communities I don't necessarily mean the organism as a whole. Every organ is also a cell community with a defined role to play, although of course any innovation must be integrated within the whole organism. But the invention of a leg, an eye, a nose, a penis still has to take place at the level of an existing cellular community. Your agreement makes me all the more surprised that you dismiss the idea as biological fantasy.-DAVID: What you are skipping is the fact that each organism, either single-celled or multicelled is under tight controls by the genome. My liver cells do not make their own decisions outside of that control framework.-Sadly, we now appear to have abandoned the subject of panpsychism altogether, and have returned to the initial analogy of the intelligent cell, but this subject has so many ramifications that we really do need to sort it out. So on we go. -If every cell in every organism has always been under tight control by the genome, and if early forms of life did not have a liver, an eye, a leg, a penis, and if God did not pre-programme livers, eyes, legs and penises to appear billions of years after he invented the mechanisms for evolution, and if God did not manufacture these organs separately, what part of the existing organisms brought about these new forms?