Biological complexity: bacteria use electrical signals (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 12, 2016, 15:41 (3178 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You would have to ask those scientists who have spent a lifetime studying the behaviour of cells and have drawn the conclusion that they are intelligent, sentient, cognitive, decision-making beings. However, if you think such questions cannot be answered by studying behaviour (including our own), you will have to admit that one cannot prove humans are free agents and not automatons (free will versus determinism). - I am fully convinced I have free will, philosophic debate aside. The plasticity of the brain is proof in the way it responds clearly and accurately to my use of it . - > dhw: Meanwhile, is there any semblance of proof that 3.8 billion years ago an unknown superintelligence placed a computer programme for all evolutionary innovations, lifestyles and natural wonders in the very first cells? - There is no better explanation.