Wound repair (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, April 24, 2015, 22:03 (3500 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: 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.-I was drawing a parallel, not saying that cellular intelligence is similar to human consciousness. No-one claims that. The point of the parallel is that different intelligences produce different inventions. Millions of non-human minds produce millions of variations. You are quite right, though, that we don't know if other organisms have minds. The hypothesis of the IM is based in turn on the hypothesis that they do, and the latter hypothesis has the backing of many highly respected scientists, though these do not include your good self.-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.-DAVID: I don't pat myself on the back. I simply have the right to independent thought.-Flossie Flat-Earth will be pleased that she has been vindicated, then.