Intelligence (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 28, 2013, 16:08 (4075 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your struggle to find the right term is misdirected. There is an information plan in every living organism, which is the key to why it is alive. Life is vastly different from non-living matter. The gap is so vast 60 years of intensive research has no answer to how life appeared. And has not shown any new avenues of research to find the answer.
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> dhw: I agree. And our ignorance allows me to speculate on alternatives to materialistic chance and to theistic belief in an eternal super-intelligence. I'm proposing a lesser form of intelligence (energy) which through an infinite number of material combinations has evolved ever greater degrees of intelligence, in the same way as unselfconscious cells have evolved ever greater degrees of complexity. If you can believe in a readymade superintelligence, why can't you believe in an evolving lesser intelligence?-I can't believe in your proposed infantile form of what seems to be "baby intelligence" which then grows to something more complex. We do see this with our human babies which have to grow to be self-aware as their brains mature. But tht is planned maturization. I can only know my complete intelligence and can only accept, for the creation of the universe and life, a mind of vaster capacity than mine. IMHO only such a mind could have created our reality from nothing. Does your baby intelligence grow by chance or by purpose?