Cambrian Explosion: afterthought (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 03, 2013, 16:13 (4048 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Thursday, October 03, 2013, 16:45


> dhw: There is now multiple confusion. Firstly, I have always bracketed cells and cell communities together. I don't see how communities can form without communication and cooperation between individual cells. I suggested that the first innovation came when cells merged. So are you now saying that the single cell has no intelligence, but when two cells come together they become intelligent? No, because you have only mentioned decision-making (though presumably when individual cells merge, it isn't as a result of a decision!), and according to you decision-making is not enough to justify using the word intelligent. Organisms must be able to analyse concepts, formulate theories, and do all the things that humans do with their brains and consciousness.-You have been confused all along. First of all, we have no theory of multicellularity origination. We don't know why or how it happened. A very recent conference admitted this.-http://www.multicellularity2013.com/resources/abstracts2013-09-28.pdf-Single-celled organisms have the automatic responses shown in bbella's lecture. Multicelled organisms like ants have nerve cells and brains and act through instincts, and we don't know how instincts are coded into their brains. Cooperation in organs is generated through differential expresion of DNA in the various cell types that make up a specific organ. Once again you are confused about intelligent information in DNA and 'intelligence'. 
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> dhw: You are confusing all levels of our discussion. ...... according to you, it's not only single-celled creatures that are automatons, but also multicellular creatures like ants, which I used as an analogy to the way cell communities function (remember the decapitated mantis?). So you will also have to revise your verdict on multicellular organisms.-I've covered this comment above. The intelligent genome is a factory-guidance automatic responder, working from intellgent information packed into it. DNA doesn't just make proteins, it organizes whole organs and organisms. It must have prior information available in order to do that. Every building has an architect. You claim that each cell works within a committee of cells, which is goal oriented originally in the dim past to struggle toward the goal of a functional kidney, without understanding the requirements of such an organ. Hunt and peck to a kidney really is poppycock. We are full circle.