Complexity of synapse transmission (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 14:12 (2502 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID's comment: As usual we see cells/neurons using protein molecules to present information. No full brain function required. Individual cells are not intelligent in and of themselves. They are programmed to act intelligently.

dhw: You seize on the material means of presenting information, but prefer not to ask how cells/neurons came to perform such actions in the first place. If I tell you that humans use biochemical processes to pass on information, will you tell me this means they are not intelligent in and of themselves?

To expand the range, and link up with your post on DNA repair: with all new defects and diseases and threats, cells must respond. Despite every success, there is a massive failure rate. 99% of all species have died. This means the cells/cell communities did not find a solution. When humans come up with means of destroying bacteria, bacteria die and die and die, but eventually they find a solution. So did your God programme some to fail and others to succeed? Or might it be that eventually the successful ones worked it out for themselves?

Conflating species failure with molecules carrying information is an interesting debate subterfuge. Cells are not an equal to humans. I don't know if God dabbles in every species failure. We know He uses an evolutinary method to create advances in the complexity of living species, including sapiens.