Bacterial Intelligence? system analysis of bacteria (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 19:02 (2291 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID’s comment: This is an editorial description of her work, and describes how highly organized and controlled are the systems in any bacteria. It reeks of intelligent design.

dhw: I don’t know why you headed this: “Bacterial intelligence?” The article has nothing to do with the decision-making capabilities of bacteria. All organisms have highly organized and controlled systems that work automatically, and that “reek of intelligent design”. That doesn’t mean they are not intelligent.

Headed that way because we are in constant discussion about bacterial intelligence. If all of their activity is automatic, they are no innately intelligent.

dhw: In passing, I agree with your comments on the eye. Sorry, Matt, but I found the video rather irritating and the technique of finding faults in the “design” can be applied to every part of the body, because every part of the body can go wrong so there must be a “fault” of some kind. So what? That is not an argument for all the complexities of eyes, noses, ears etc. to be the result of chance. As we agnostics know, there are far more convincing arguments than this against the existence of an unknown, unknowable, immaterial, conscious, sourceless designer.