The Intelligent Cell (Origins)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 05:32 (4507 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Even if you don’t believe in God, you have to acknowledge some innate form of intelligence that enables these cells to get together, to invent new mechanisms, and to keep the mechanisms functioning. I can’t see any way round that conclusion. I’m not arguing that they make conscious decisions in the way humans do, but I am most definitely arguing that these vast assemblies of cells cannot have achieved their functioning complexities just by being swirled in the water or blown by the wind. There is method in their meetings.

dhw: No-one knows what lies behind it all. If theists could look beyond their various blinkered visions of a supreme being, and if atheists could look beyond their blinkered belief that there’s NOTHING behind it all except materials hitting on a lucky formula, they would all be able to see that the mechanisms of life and evolution reveal a form of intelligence as yet unknown to us. We shall probably never find out how it came about in the first place, but we should keep an open mind as we consider all its astonishing manifestations, in whatever form.

DJT: You have arrived at my point of view, whether you realize it or not. My UI is what you are describing, 'as yet unknown to us'.