Immunity system complexity: how T cells are triggered (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, April 11, 2019, 12:18 (2053 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: We know different bacteria in a biofilm do different functions based on their placement, but that is probably fully automatic, not bacterial knowing choice.

dhw: If they perform different functions within their community, and we know they communicate, how can you say they don't cooperate? You are now merely repeating your belief that their cooperation and communication were "probably" preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago.

DAVID: If they are programmed to cooperate of course that is what happens. You want them to independently act.

I don’t “want” them to do anything. I am merely proposing - apparently in common with the majority of modern scientists - that bacteria are intelligent organisms which are capable of acting independently and of cooperating together.

DAVID: Please tell us which organelle in a cell can possibly plan with thought?

dhw: If we knew that, there would be no debate. Please tell us which organelle in a cell contains the 3.8-billion-year-old computer programme for every single action that it will ever perform.

DAVID: Simple. The genome.

Then we can all look forward to the day when a Davidian disciple cried “Eureka!” having at last discovered in the genome God’s 3.8-billion-year-old computer programme for every single cellular action that has ever been performed, plus every action that will be performed in the future.