Bacterial Intelligence? making decisions chemically (General)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 02, 2019, 20:02 (2030 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: But what you stated is pure Darwin, adaptation after adaptation leading to speciation, whether by intelligent action or not. Darwin never discussed intelligence as a driving force. That is your imagined process.

dhw: I have not stated that adaptation after adaptation leads to speciation, and Darwin himself proposed random mutations, not cellular intelligence, as key to innovation. I have suggested that the same mechanism (cellular intelligence) responsible for adaptation – a process we know takes place – may also be responsible for innovation.

Confused answer. The second sentence refutes the first. Does adaptation following adaptation lead to innovation (speciation ) or not?

DAVID: The difference is I do my own interpretation of studies I read, and accept author's conclusions judgmentally.

dhw: There is no scientific evidence for your hypothesis above, and I do my own interpretation and pass my own judgement on your conclusion that, although you have no idea why he would have chosen it, this was his method of fulfilling his one and only goal of specially designing H. sapiens.

Fair enough. Do you arrive at a theory and look for support on the internet, or read and absorb and then make a decision as I do??