Cell complexity: talking through microtubules (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, May 10, 2018, 14:02 (2390 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: The evidence for cellular intelligence builds with every article David posts on the subject. Not to be equated with human intelligence of course, but if you saw an animal, bird, insect in trouble and calling for help, and you saw its neighbour providing that help, you wouldn’t hesitate to acknowledge that this was a sign of intelligence. It’s only because these organisms are so tiny and invisible to the naked eye that some folk dismiss the idea.
dhw: […] Most cellular activity will be automatic. It’s only when things change that intelligence is called on..

DAVID: Obviously intelligence is involved. Cells are so complex they must have a designer. That is where the intelligence comes from.

dhw: Two separate issues here: 1) Do cells have their own autonomous intelligence? 2) If they do, where did it come from? Your complexity = design argument is a powerful one. I hope you are now beginning to acknowledge that the case for cellular intelligence is becoming increasingly powerful!

DAVID: We agree they certainly act intelligently. That is because of their intelligent design. Your view and my view are possible, but it is obvious the complexity of their responses to stimuli requires a designer.

This is excellent news. Since you agree that my basic premise of autonomous cellular intelligence is possible, and you have already agreed that you can find no flaw in the logical hypothesis I have built on it, clearly you now agree that your God might possibly have built an autonomous inventive mechanism through which evolution progressed in the higgledy-piggledy manner we can all observe (though we must allow for the occasional dabble).