Immunity: detecting dangerous bacteria (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, November 22, 2017, 13:23 (2559 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: If they can learn by experience, change their own structures to fit in and cope with what they have learned, and even teach themselves, it would be hard to find many more attributes required for autonomous intelligence. You might just as well say your God designed their ability to think for themselves.

DAVID: What I do say is this mechanism is intelligently designed by God to work automatically.

dhw: You have always acknowledged that our fellow animals have a degree of autonomous conscious intelligence, though it’s nothing like as developed as ours. Bearing this in mind, please tell me what attributes an organism must have for you to acknowledge that it has a degree of autonomous conscious intelligence.

DAVID: Any animal with a brain.

Ah well, in the light of your avowed beliefs, you’ll be in for a pretty dumb afterlife.