Genome complexity in embryology (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 13:13 (3497 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: As life originated (we don't have any direct evidence of 'how'), did it develop its 'intelligence' by hunt-and-peck? By chance? How did the earliest collection of cooperative proteins learn by experience, if it did? Within the collection of these proteins was there any ability to evaluate sensory input, if there was any sensory input. See the 'chicken and egg' problem expressed in my last post of 15 minutes ago.-No problem asking the questions. No way of answering them. How did energy come by its intelligence? How did it know about proteins and DNA and RNA and brains and livers and penises and weaverbirds' nests, with some of these planned in advance billions of years before cell communities switched on their computers? At least one can imagine how organisms might learn by experience and improve through innovations, as evolution demonstrates. A God following the same learning curve would seem more convincing to me than your UI who preprogrammes humans from the start, but also preprogrammes plovers and platypuses, whales and weaverbirds for reasons you cannot discern. -dhw: Either wildly inventive organisms are wildly inventive or they are automatons obeying your God's instructions.....but wish you would stop using euphemisms such as “guided” and “directed” to gloss over the fact that this entails preprogramming or direct dabbling. We English cowboys shoot from the hip - none of your fancy twiddles and twirls.-DAVID: I've admitted to preprogramming or dabbling all along. Guided and directed fit the bill.-You have,but you stopped using those terms when I started pushing the unlikelihood of a 3.7-billion-year computer programme, and the problem of drawing the line between dabbling and separate creation. “Guided” and “directed” are so gently vague that they mask the colossal implications and the problems attached to them.