How math interprets biology and life, and the cosmos (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 15, 2013, 01:18 (3997 days ago) @ xeno6696

My take-away is that mathematics discovers so much and predicts so much and fits the processes so well.
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> Matt: So I catch you at this again! I've missed hanging out here, I wish I could do it more!-We'd love having you back. We know you are very busy, but dhw has kept me busy writing the new book ,fighting with the publisher, but dhw is an awesome style editor and the book is about to appear.
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> I've said it a couple times before: We ought not be shocked that the most precise language ever invented explains things precisely! Dawkins falls into this all the time, an amazement that the universe is comprehensible. -Einstein said it first and wasn't as amazed as Little Richard. - 
> Matt: If we cannot differentiate between mechanical and thoughtful action, what does this mean for your creator argument? You rightly agree that it muddies the waters, but it muddies them worse for you than it does for those of us on the fence, because you're undermining your own conviction that you can "know intelligence when you see it!" If intelligence is "thoughtful action" and the lack of intelligence is "mechanical action," and you posit that we can't tell the difference... then we cannot know "thoughtful action" when we see it.-That is not the intent of my statements. "Mechanical action" is driven by intelligent information in the genome. It makes the cells seem intelligent of their own volition, but they use implanted information from an intelligent source.