Immunity system complexity: T cells identify self, non- self (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, June 06, 2019, 18:23 (1997 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Note my bolds. A very complex automatic arrangement. The T cells go through an important learning process. A system that must be designed to fill these requirements. Not by chance.

dhw: An “automatic” arrangement by which cells go through a “learning process”! Every single new development must have begun with a learning process, and the ability to learn is integral to intelligence.

DAVID: And the learning process can be totally designed.

dhw: Yes indeed, we may all be robots without knowing it. On the other hand, the learning process can be the product of autonomous intelligence. You often quote the odds as 50/50, but happen to know that in our case it’s 100 autonomous intelligence, and in cells it’s 100 automatic.

I'm allowed to have my interpretation. You have yours, wishing for innate cellular intelligence.