Wound repair (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 23, 2015, 18:50 (3501 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The IM is certainly no more nebulous than your UI, and your assumption that the only possible planning mind is your God's is also open to question. There is a parallel here, once you accept the view that all organic matter has its own form of intelligence. The parallel is with humans. Different human intelligences have come up with a vast variety of inventions, often of astonishing complexity. If you grant different forms of intelligence to different organisms, it stands to reason that there will be a vast variety of living forms, created not by one single mind but by millions of “minds”. But these millions of minds could all have stemmed from just one. Yet again, let me repeat that the theory does not exclude God (see under “Evolution v Creationism”).-I agree that your IM and God are both beyond proof. And your idea that all organic matter has intelligence runs into my objection that we cannot tell if all we are seeing is on-board information that runs the show. To compare the rest of organic matter to human consciousness is a completely false approach. We do not know that bacteria have minds. All we know is that they respond meaningfully, exact controls unknown.
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> DAVID: I am vindicated by a famous statement:
> "There's a great line from Galileo, which is: "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.'"
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> dhw: I'm delighted to hear that you regard your views as being one in a thousand. But whether you are on a par with Galileo or Flossie Flat-Earth we shall probably never know.-I don't pat myself on the back. I simply have the right to independent thought.
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> dhw: Thank you for all the posts on ants, spiders, and ear drums, all of which fit in perfectly with the idea that cell communities have their own form of intelligence ....As regards cell communication, there have been lots of articles describing how cells communicate, but they do not explain how cells come to the decisions that result from and then become the subject of their communication.- I agree. Only in the metabolic molecular algorithms that are described, controls unknown.