Brain complexity: whole brain vision mechanisms (Introduction)

by BBella , Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 07:42 (3301 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: And since we have no idea how/why ANY thought processes in ANY organism appear or work - as per all of us, not just Nagel - my answer to your original question is that the source of the instructions is “intelligence” itself (whose source is unknown), both for you and for bacteria.
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> [David] But at least we can say that the intelligence must have a source.-I'm not sure I understand why intelligence (or energy or matter for that matter) "must have a source". Wouldn't it be equivalent or at least more clear (for me anyway) to say - energy, matter and intelligence is source? I could agree to that. There may have never been a source, origin or ground zero for anything that IS but what IS. The reason we can find no 'source" of all that IS "out there" is because there is nothing other than what IS.