New Oxygen research; pre-Ediacaran (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 24, 2016, 19:20 (3044 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw; What do mean by my “simple way”? There is nothing simple about billions of cells cooperating to create a complex organ. But it is no more unlikely than each one of those billions of cells being individually programmed or personally directed by an unknown, unsourced superintelligence to fulfil its particular role.-By simple I mean you are proposing progress to complex plans without a planning brain to coordinate all the complex parts. Hunt and peck? -> dhw: However, “the foresight to design the next plan for the future” is not quite what I envisage. In my hypothesis, cell communities respond to changes in the environment. They do not anticipate those changes. Some cell communities will merely adjust their structure to cope with them (the known process of adaptation), but others will use the new information to innovate. As you say elsewhere: “If adaptation is not a form of innovation, what is?” We KNOW that cells alter their own structure to adapt. That is not planning for the future: it is an intelligent response to the requirements of the present. I suggest that innovation may be an extension of this process: an intelligent response to new opportunities offered by the present.-Adaptation is what you are describing, and cells can do that, but how does your method get to new species? This is why my God dabbles. This still sounds like chance hunt and peck. It doesn't answer the problem of the Cambrian Explosion; only God does.