Cell Memories (Identity)

by David Turell , Tuesday, July 08, 2014, 15:23 (3790 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Why do you insert the word automatic? When neuroscientists trace chemical reactions in the human brain, are these the cause of or the response to intelligent thought? I'm not denying that cellular “intelligence” is difficult to define, and it should certainly not be equated with the self-awareness of human intelligence. Nor do I deny that much of cellular activity is automatic. The cellular community that is “me” depends on a vast range of automatic cellular activities. But that doesn't make “me” an automaton. ....The application of “cellular intelligence” to evolution solves many of the problems associated with the theory, so why not at least keep an open mind?-You have jumped toa whole body interpretation of what I presented. All I pointed out is that in the individual cell there are automatic responses to problems. You want to expand this to whole organism intelligence of some sort, not brain directed. You may have your theory to comfort you, but my kidney is automatic as is my liver, and a bacterium reacts through biochemical modifying molecular reactions controlled by information in the DNA. Our difference is that I ascribe that information to intelligent activity in creating that information, and you ascribe it to ? That is where I stumble in trying to follow you. I need cause and effect. You need it for the BB as we have agreed, but not in biology.