Intelligence (Origins)

by BBella , Sunday, March 03, 2013, 21:51 (4281 days ago) @ David Turell

You are trying for a third way like Nagel. I wish I could give you a short course in the histology of the liver. Its architcture is more complex than that of a 30 storey building. It cell types are as varied as the parts of the building, but one big difference is that the liver is also in a chemical business of making and destroying chemicals all by itself. Buildings have an architect. So does the liver. The individual cells could not have held a congress over a few billion years and decided how to organize themselves. Not without guidance. It takes more than individual intelligence at a low level. I think your analogy fails. -But, David, you are discounting the possibility of quantum interconnectedness, the true architect of all that is. Once any information is recorded by new innovative creations within matter, that information is always available to all other creations. Individual cells would then have no need to hold congress (which would never get anything done) to decide how to organize themselves as they always have available to them whatever is needed. Energy (the malleable fabric from which all that is springs) retains all information always, making all information readily available and limitless for new cellular creations. -
> As far as evolution is concerned, liver-equivalents appear de novo in the Cambrian, suddenly, not bit by bit as cells would do negotiating among themselves. Your cell congress will not work. It does not answer the fossil record, as Gould noted. All new species appear de novo, fully formed and functional. There are no tiny steps in the fossil record. 
> -Then exactly what is the answer to how the above appeared "de novo", in your book? Intervention?