Brain complexity: whole brain vision mechanisms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 08, 2015, 16:29 (3303 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The concept involves absorbing information from the environment, processing it, and figuring out how it might be exploited. -Your "figuring out" is where I have the most problem. If evolution is punctuated, and it is, and if species arise full-blown, and they are, how do committees of cells plan to make the jump? From horse drawn carriage to auto is such a jump. Even you offer the possibility of a God-given planning mechanism. Frankly, that is what is required. I don't care if it is God directly or through His mechanism. God is still the author.-> 
> dhw: Why are you now specifying “ordinary somatic cells”? Are you saying that maybe germ cells do have an intelligence of their own? Once a cell community is formed, I am suggesting that, just as with an ant colony, there is some kind of mind directing operations.-Yes, germ cells are the likely spot for future planning. That is where the Pluripotential code lies. -> dhw: We are in agreement, except that in my hypothesis the “onboard instructions” were not issued 3.8 billion years ago in a computer programme or by a constantly dabbling God (what research will be able to show that, eh?) but by the equivalent of an autonomous “brain” within the cell community itself. -And the source of the instructions in the 'autonomous brain' is?