Cell response to electric field (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, April 05, 2013, 12:51 (4251 days ago) @ BBella

David and George referred us to the same article about cell responses:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328125100.htm-DAVID: No evidence of pan-psychism here.
GEORGE: Weird stuff! [...] Not minds though.-Although this is a red letter day, with David and George actually joining forces, I must stress that I've never used the word "mind", as it has far too many human associations. "Intelligence" in inverted commas is the best I can do, and this is NOT to be equated with human thought or self-awareness. My detailed response, once more highlighting innovation and our ignorance of how the cells function, was posted on 3 April at 18.11, following on from the highlighted quotes below, which BBella has also taken up:-QUOTE: "Damage to tissue sets up a "short circuit," changing the flux direction and creating an electrical field that leads cells into the wound. But exactly how and why does this happen? That's unclear."
QUOTE: "We know that cells can respond to a weak electrical field, but we don't know how they sense it," said Min Zhao, professor of dermatology and ophthalmology and a researcher at UC Davis' stem cell center, the Institute for Regenerative Cures. "If we can understand the process better, we can make wound healing and tissue regeneration more effective."-BBELLA: This article reports scientist observing cells responding to weak electrical fields and how they have yet to understand just how the cells sense each other. Yet other scientist are observing light, electromagnetism, photons, etc and observing just "how" it is that cells, not only sense each other, but communicate thru biophotons; the sending and receiving messages of light thru vibration. At some point scientist will get it together and begin to send and receive information between themselves. Science will then at last see God, in the sense, that they will finally recognize that All That Is, is a universe of senders and receivers of messages/information within a vibrational field. We (ATI) are all the orchestral music, sending and receiving sound/movement, thought, information throughout the universe in a continual vibrational hum. When science finally gets their heads together, they will be able to use this information to change the world and cure many diseases, clean up our world, and probably bring peace...who knows. Once mankind comprehends then uses this knowledge to effect what is, anything is possible.-I have my doubts about the Utopian future, but otherwise this fits in well with the somewhat indeterminate form of panpsychism I'm tinkering with. The one point I'm very uncertain about in your insightful combination of science and metaphysics is your use of the word "God". As I tried to point out under "Evolution of Intelligence" on 2 April at 20.27, it means totally different things to different people. You've equated it with All That Is, but atheists will probably switch off immediately, and theists of all sorts will claim you as one of their own. Do you believe, for instance, that the ATI is a single entity which is aware of itself, deliberately created the universe and life from scratch, had a particular purpose for doing so, is watching us humans, and is possibly even listening to our prayers? I don't recall you ever writing about such a being, and although I know you had a religious upbringing, I always had the impression that you preferred to leave such questions open.