Biological complexity: understanding the ribosome (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, July 28, 2017, 11:26 (2676 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: If matter has intelligence that fits my proposal that the universe is a part of God's consciousness

dhw: Why are you trying to pretend that my alternative hypothesis is the same as yours? You insist on a single, all-knowing mind, a “person like no other”, who created matter. My (atheistic) panpsychist alternative is zillions of blobs of matter with the most rudimentary of minds which, in the course of time, as matter and energy constantly transform themselves into an infinite number of combinations and forms, increase their knowledge until eventually one product among zillions is the living cell. And the living cell continues the process of combining and increasing knowledge and variety of forms. Bottom up atheistic evolution as opposed to top down theistic evolution. Two equally incredible hypotheses, one of which must be closer to the truth than the other.

DAVID: I'm not pretending. I think God is universal consciousness and His consciousness is part of everything in the universe.

You were pretending that my hypothesis amounted to the same as yours, and I have tried to explain why the two hypotheses are completely different.