Extended Evolutionary Synthesis; another view (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 09, 2015, 17:37 (3393 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: if one cannot tell the difference from outside, and one can't get inside, the only means of access is through testing and observing..... Are you really so convinced that they are all deluded? -Not deluded, just a different interpretation of the known facts.
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> TONY: I don't doubt that organism have intelligence. I doubt the degree of that intelligence. Some intelligence is obviously needed for survival, but interspecies communication, planning, and coordination all take a level of communication that I've seen no evidence for.
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> dhw: The evidence is in the symbiosis itself. What evidence have you seen that God preprogrammed the various prototypes so that certain descendants (ah, common descent again!) would automatically communicate, plan and coordinate?-Chicken and egg problem. The complicated relationships of symbiosis cannot develop by chance. Each organism has to plan its response in advance of the experimental relationship. The negotiations of the biochemical relationship would be as complex as the US-Iran 'deal'.