Quantum zeno effect (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 18:05 (4105 days ago) @ David Turell

Lynn Margulis: "The evolutionary antecedent of the nervous system is "microbial consciousness." In my description of the origin of the eukaryotic cell via bacterial cell merger, the components fused via symbiogenesis are already "conscious" entities. I have reconstructed an aspect of the origin of the neurotubule system by a hypothesis that can be directly tested. The idea is that the system of microtubules that became neurotubules has as its origin once-independent eubacteria of a very specific kind. Nothing, I claim, has ever been lost without a trace in evolution. The remains of the evolutionary process, the sequence that occurred that produced Cajal's neuron and other cells, live today." 
 
http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/929/1/55-DAVID: Two sides of the coin are consciousness-containing cells or consciously- directed cells. Hard to tell which unless you recognize the obvious teleology in the direction of complexity in evolution.-We know there is complexity, and if cells have the ABILITY to combine,and combinations confer advantages, they will provide their own teleology, just as we humans have done in the course of our history. It doesn't have to be imposed on them or us from outside. But you are right, we can't tell whether they direct themselves from inside or are directed from outside. I find it hard to imagine your God fiddling around with every cell, and so even if I were a theist, I would still prefer the idea that there is a mechanism at work INSIDE the cell. This brings us to the alternatives: God created the mechanism for the cells to take their decisions, or they evolved the ability to do so. Of course if your God is part of every particle, every particle is a godicle. Back to Square One.