Different in degree or kind: An essay captures Adler (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 21, 2015, 15:38 (3290 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: What you present is all correct. It is the interpretation that is wrong. A computer does read/write automatically. So can the cell and does. This is why the ID folks adopted Shapiro, much to his discomfort.
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> dhw: There I was, thinking you thought you'd found something in Shapiro that contradicted his explicit statements about cellular intelligence, but all the time it was just you disagreeing with him yet again! So why on earth did you ask for my interpretation of his computer image in the first place?-I brought up the computer image because Shapiro is telling us that the genome acts like a computer. Computers work automatically. The inference is that the genome of each cell works automatically, and does.