Defining sentient cells: Cell receptors (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, April 01, 2018, 15:26 (2215 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Our fellow organisms also include insects, birds, fish, other animals and our fellow human beings. So I wonder how you manage to distinguish between those that merely look intelligent and those that actually are intelligent. Do please tell us your secret.

DAVID: It is analyzing instinctual behavior vs. inventive behavior. Humans are inventive.

dhw: How can you tell the difference between the instinctive and the inventive solution of problems? Every single natural wonder that you have described must have had a first, and that first would have to be called inventive. So how do you know that the very first weaverbird’s nest, beaver dam, monarch migration, chameleon camouflage, ant raft, termite city were NOT the result of inventive behaviour?

You have brought the discussion back to where God might have dabbled. The inventive behavior may be God's.