Biological complexity: understanding the ribosome (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, July 24, 2017, 13:43 (2679 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Whether this intelligence springs from a god (or in your theistic version has been preprogrammed or dabbled by a god), from chance, or from some form of panpsychism remains open. (Reblak offers another alternative, but we are both waiting to hear a bit more about the nature of Mother Nature!)

DAVID: You are welcome.I cannot accept chance. And I view panpsychism as a variation on universal consciousness, an equivalent of God.

Some forms of panpsychism are indeed a God equivalent, but you know very well that the form I am proposing is totally different: namely, the evolution of zillions of individual consciousnesses from the bottom up (as opposed to your sourceless top-down, know-it-all single god). In my opinion, this is no more and no less likely than the god and the chance hypotheses.