Natures wonders: making spider silk (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 18:34 (3746 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:The point I'm trying to make is that human brains ARE cells, but we don't know how these particular cells become intelligent, just as we don't know how other cell communities become “intelligent”, -We know that cells operate on information in the genome. You and I may disagree on the source of the information.-> dhw: Of course simple cell responses don't explain the Cambrian. But an inventive mechanism inside the genome of the cell, or rather the genomes of the cell communities of which all organisms consist, does explain it.-I have no disagreement with this.-> 
> dhw: This was in response to your claim that the inventive mechanism had to follow a set of rules. My point is that the inventive mechanism that creates new organs and “Nature's Wonders” would be no more subject to “rules”..... Hence the enormous variety of innovations and wonders.-My point should be clear enough. The cells are not capable of such natures wonders unless there is an inventive mechanism they can use. By themselves they don't have the capacity. They are too automatic, they follow rules. A natural threat brings out the need to stir up the inventive mechanism in the genome which I believe is yet to be discovered.->> dhw: So too would you be haunted by the extraordinary concept of the first few cells being programmed with every single wonder and innovation throughout the history of evolution.-That does bother me. The idea of an inventive mechanism being present makes sense.