Introducing the brain: general (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 19, 2022, 16:27 (1006 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: And my response is intelligence needs minds which cells do not have. So how did they become intelligent in your theory?

dhw: Why have you suddenly introduced the word “mind”? Cells do not have brains. That does not mean they don’t have some form of intelligence. Nobody knows the origin of intelligence, but as an agnostic, I acknowledge the possibility that there is a God who designed it. Why do you refuse to accept this possibility?

That is exactly what I do accept: God designed cells with intelligent instructions they carefully follow..

dhw: Back we go: why could your God the creator not have created the mechanism for expansion as well as complexification?

DAVID: Same answer. A true designer who knows what he wishes to design, does not give the job off to secondhand methods. The outcome is not controlled.

dhw: We are talking here about the human brain. So when your God designed the autonomous mechanism for complexification, which he did not control because we are free to come up with the ideas that require complexification, he was not a true designer. Ts, ts.

Total distortion. God undoubtedly designed previous brains and our current one with the complexification with the exact purpose to allow handling new uses of the brain. Why are you mixing our free will into this debate? We have free will and in new ideas and concepts our brain has the ability to handle them with complexification, a plasticity well recognized.