Revisiting convergence (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, June 26, 2015, 18:34 (3437 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: As usual you like to plug “automaticity” (which you do again with the article describing responses to danger), and so as usual I must respond that once an innovation is in place, I agree that cell communities function automatically. The theory of the autonomous inventive mechanism, following on from that of the intelligent cell, is my suggestion to explain the unsolved mystery of innovation, which - if you believe in common descent - can only take place in existing organisms. Your counter-argument has been that your God preprogrammed your “automatic organs” into those first living cells, though in relation to this and most of Nature's Wonders, you have tried to modify the almost infinite programme capacity of those first cells with the nebulous concept of “guided evolution”.-A good summary of positions