Intelligence & Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 04, 2013, 15:32 (4006 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: No, I will never leave the point that cells operate under a plan that contains intelligently supplied information. It makes them seem independently intelligent.
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> dhw: Turell says cells are automatons
> That have an IQ of zero.
> "No, they're intelligent," say Margulis,
> Albrecht-Buehler, Shapiro.
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> "Cells only seem intelligent,"
> Says Turell, as if he knew.
> Ah well, perhaps we only seem
> To be intelligent too.-Certainly true of some humans