Contingent evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, July 02, 2014, 02:36 (3585 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:Perhaps you should reread Part One of the post with which I opened this thread: "According to David, "God is intelligence", is "both the particles and the organizer of the particles," and is "present in all that IS, living and inorganic"(BBella). This is the most extreme version of theistic panpsychism. I would like to develop a variation on it, with the proviso that I offer it as an alternative, not as a belief." You are perfectly prepared to accept the idea that intelligence is present in all the particles, provided we call it God. The hypothesis I am offering is the same, except that this form of intelligence did not precede the particles but evolved within them.-If you can give me a plausible mechanism by which cells can gain intelligence by themselves, I will give a little on my resistance to your hypothosis. Do not tell me information. They do that automatically now and from the first cell.