Brain complexity: circadian controls (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, October 02, 2015, 14:27 (3340 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Your comment then was that [Talbott] “asks questions to which I have answers satisfactory to me. I have the right to my own interpretation of the evidence.”
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> Quite right. But the fact that “Automaticity if properly regulated will look just like intelligent action from the outside of all bacteria” works both ways: intelligent activity can look like automaticity. We don't know where the borderlines lie, even within ourselves (some people even go so far as to say that we humans are nothing but automatic machines). You accept that our fellow animals are intelligent in their own way; you have, I believe, grudgingly admitted that ants may be intelligent in their own way. Well, perhaps all living organisms are intelligent in their own way. You have often used the expression “programming” in relation to the behaviour of our cellular communities. Computers are programmed, and we call such machines artificial intelligence. Cells are not artificial. Many biologists are convinced that cells have natural intelligence. I only ask that their findings should be taken seriously, as should the possible implications of those findings.-Your problem is not recognizing that research into the biochemistry of bacteria finds that all the various ways a bacteria can respond, are a series of biochemical molecular reactions in a chain reaction. As for molecules acting as if alive, read closely the articles I present which describe molecules twisting into different shapes as part of their function (snake-like writhing in appearance). Molecules walking along actin fibers to transport other molecules are fully described. The molecules look alive, but they part of live-action real life! This is what is so amazing: all of these tens of thousands of biochemical complicated molecules in one cell functioning together in a complex dance of life. We can watch it but we have no idea how to create it so it works as life. This is all guided by information in the genome code and its various control layers. If not invented by chance, how did this happen? Intelligence is the only viable answer.