Bacterial Intelligence? (General)

by David Turell , Friday, January 30, 2015, 01:10 (3584 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I dragged it in because the issue between us is degrees of autonomy. Researchers claim that bacteria are cognitive, sentient, intelligent beings, whereas you insist that they are automatons obeying instructions.... Why must I take your word against theirs?-Because I view the issue differently as I have explained over and over. My ID friends understand this. Bacteria look intelligent because they are run by intelligent information codes. I put the intelligence at a different level than you imply from what you quote. Bacteria do not direct themselves. They are directed.
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> dhw: It HAS to be a continuum in the sense that changes can only take place in living organisms, ...No-one has witnessed any such invention. Nor has anyone witnessed God dabbling, and no-one has found the 3.7-billion-year-old divine computer programme for turning bacteria into humans. We can only speculate. -You are right about the underlying continuum as living organisms evolve somehow.