Cambrian Explosion: another article on early brains (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 18:23 (3294 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: But your on-board inventive mechanism has always been preprogrammed by your God, since you insist that the innovations, lifestyles etc. are too complex for organisms to have invented by themselves. It's just another expression for your on-board computer programme. In the past you have expressed uncertainty over your God's control of the environment, but even if he controls it, the epigenetic changes must either be preprogrammed, directly implemented by God, or organized by the cell communities themselves. Since you generally insist that they are “automatic”, that can only mean they are preprogrammed! Your many possibilities still shrink to preprogramming or dabbling, unless you also allow for the possibility that your God created an inventive mechanism which could autonomously find ways of adapting to or exploiting the environment in which it finds itself.-I've always given an IM a 'semi-automatic' designation, which means it has degrees of freedom.