Introducing the brain: general (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 20:09 (974 days ago) @ dhw

Memory formation

DAVID: The cells use the info, don't they? That makes them autonomous in the use.

dhw: What info are you referring to? Autonomy means that whatever the new requirements may be, cells process the info and act on it independently of your God. He does not give them instructions on what to do in each and every situation. Assuming he exists, he has provided them with an autonomous means of processing and acting. What else could this means be if it is not some form of intelligence?

Let's use a self-driving car to understand my view of the word:

https://www.synopsys.com/automotive/what-is-autonomous-car.html\

"An autonomous car is a vehicle capable of sensing its environment and operating without human involvement. A human passenger is not required to take control of the vehicle at any time, nor is a human passenger required to be present in the vehicle at all. An autonomous car can go anywhere a traditional car goes and do everything that an experienced human driver does". I view cells in the same way!

DAVID: I haven't changed my belief, a designing God makes bigger more complex brains.

dhw: So your God has created a mechanism which allows for autonomous complexification and the autonomous addition of cells to the hippocampus, but earlier additions required special surgery on groups of homos to insert brand new bits and pieces their brains didn’t have before. And you reckon my intelligent cell theory is a just-so story.

That is your weird interpretation. My view is still all past brains could complexify to their level of ability. God added complexity and size to each new better thinking species. See today's new entry on the brain.

DAVID: Neurons do have the instructions to make new decisions and have DNA instructions to properly complexify.

dhw: I’d appreciate clarification of this. Are you saying that your God simply tells the neurons that they must make new decisions, and tells the DNA to complexify properly? Or are you saying that he provides the decisions and directs each complexification? If it’s the former, you might just as well agree to the theory that he actually provides them with the means of making decisions/complexifying properly (i.e. intelligence) and tells them to use it.

Complexification occurs when a brain is used in a new capacity, as in Italian women reading.
The neurons have instructions in their DNA to add new axon branches and synapses to handle this new load of thought. God obviously not needed as they do it. They ARE FULLY PRWPARED BY PREVIUS DESIGN.