Cell Memories (Identity)

by dhw, Friday, July 11, 2014, 21:02 (3576 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: In order to communicate and interact, you have to have more than one cell. It's the interaction between cells that demonstrates their individual intelligence. There are two distinct phases in your argument: 1) how the cell operates, and 2) how the intelligence of the cell originated. I can no more answer the latter than I can tell you how our own intelligence originated. I notice you did not answer my question: “When neuroscientists trace chemical reactions in the human brain, are these the cause of or the response to intelligent thought?” In other words, can we be sure that thought is composed only of chemical processes? The theory of the “intelligent cell” is based on the research done by people such as Margulis, Shapiro and Albrecht-Buehler. It is they who argue that cells are “sentient beings” which act intelligently. [...] I'm not prepared as you are to say they're wrong. 
-DAVID: I'm sorry, but for me cells act automatically with each other, and I am convinced that an intelligent source provided the information by which they automatically operate as a group of cells in an organ.-Knowledge hath no greater restriction
Than the mind with strong conviction.