Biochemistry of cell communication; message molecules (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 12:12 (2109 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID’s comment: These are organic molecules working from their innate abilities to change shape and/or electrical attraction fields with ions charges. No brain or DNA instructions involved. The molecules are designed and chosen to fill a specific repetitive role without an mental thought involved.

dhw: These molecules are part of the cell. When you move your arm, all kinds of electrical actions take place, but your arm does not have a brain and does not indulge in mental thought. The concept of cellular intelligence rests on the idea that the cell itself has some sort of brain equivalent which issues instructions to the rest of the cell (see Buehler).

DAVID: The molecules respond to each other. That is how they are designed with charged ions at the appropriate spots to have them interlock. The design looks like intelligent actions.

I’m not saying the molecules are intelligent. The claim made by certain experts in the field is that the molecules are directed by intelligence. The fact that an action looks intelligent might possibly be caused by the fact that it IS intelligent.