Cambrian Explosion: changing instinct (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, September 19, 2013, 20:08 (4062 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: No. What is poppycock is your 'intelligent cell' which can think and plan. Cells are automatic reactors and innovation comes from those epigenetic reactions, pre-provided by information from an intelligent conscious source. A parasite changes mouse fear instinct of cats:-http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/353325/description/News_in_Brief_Mice_lose_cat_fear_for_good_after_infection -Instinct is mental automaticity-Agreed. I described instinct as "the product of coordinating brain cells using information independently of any conscious control". However, automaticity does not explain innovation. See my earlier post on the subject:-DAVID: Not intelligence, useful information, in DNA and used by DNA.

dhw: How can information be used for innovation without the user being possessed of intelligence?


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