Consciousness; research says insects have it (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 07, 2016, 20:17 (3060 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:And yet you always insist that such phenomena are too complex for the organisms themselves to design. Please help me. Ant farming = ant intelligence or God's instructions?-I am willing to accept that some activities, if simple enough, which I think aphid herding might be, can develop into instincts.
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> DAVID: Possibly logical. This is where my thought that universal consciousness exists as God comes to play.
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> dhw: Universal consciousness is a form of panpsychism, with different degrees of consciousness. I find that very feasible when applied to individual living organisms - i.e. all living organisms have a degree of consciousness (not to be confused with human self-awareness). It only gets messy when we try to equate all these different degrees of consciousness with a single being “in full control”.-It isn't messy to me if God is everywhere and into everything.