An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 22:06 (3718 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I only refer to the cell because researchers such as Margulis, Shapiro and Albrecht-Buehler talk of the intelligent cell and not the intelligent genome. The point of the hypothesis is the existence of an autonomous form of intelligence, i.e. a mechanism that does its own planning, and if you think it's within the genome, that's absolutely fine with me. Can we therefore now say goodbye to the 3.7-billion-year-old computer programme with which your God organized every innovation and wonder in the history of life?-Certainly not. Whatever program is in the genome runs the cells, not the other way around. The cells have a minimal epigentic adaptation ability. Cells cannot plan major species alterations to new species.