Biological complexity: homeostasis (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 09:11 (2217 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Now that you have withdrawn your absurdly limited definition of intelligence, you revert to the dead horse flogging of Darwin’s gradualism, which I have already rejected a hundred times.

David: I can't help that you totally misinterpreted my comment about one form of intelligence. I've withdrawn nothing.

Here is your comment: “Intelligence implies the ability to plan and design, being able to view future needs theoretically. Cells can't do this [...]”

Intelligence does not imply the ability to plan and design or to be able to view future needs theoretically. If it did, as far as we know, only humans could be called intelligent. You tried to use this argument to prove that cells are not intelligent and only "act intelligently". Your statement should have been the other way round. The ability to plan implies intelligence. And I join Shapiro & Co in proposing that the ability to solve problems, to cooperate and communicate with other organisms, and to make decisions also implies intelligence. Let’s move on.