Biological complexity: understanding the ribosome (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, July 24, 2017, 16:27 (2679 days ago) @ dhw

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.

dhw: 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.

OK. We can't explain one form of consciousness (ours) and you want zillions. Are they all alike or dissimilar since the organisms are dissimilar?