Animal Minds; how much can we learn about them? (Animals)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 09, 2015, 00:55 (3271 days ago) @ dhw


> Dhw: There is a passage in David's latest post under “Genome complexity” that is very striking: “But the ribosome itself has changed over time. Its history shows how simple molecules joined forces to invent biology...” What is later called the “mind-boggling” complexity would then be the result of 3.8 thousand million years of intelligences “joining forces”.-> BBELLA: It would seem to me that no matter how many different kinds of rocks (and how did they become different kinds in the first place) joined together for eternity, rocks could not create an intelligent human unless there was already intelligence at work in the process - from the beginning (?), always.
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> dhw: See above. Not rocks. All the non-living substances that eventually combined to make the first cells.-I'm with Bbella. Non-living substances could not make life without intelligence leading the way.