More Denton: Reply to David (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 15, 2015, 19:07 (3179 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: For all we know, the absence of a brain might be an evolutionary advantage, since the bacterial form of “intelligence” has enabled them to survive in so many different environments. -Or the onboard intelligent information given to them by God. 
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> dhw: What does my interest in panpsychism have to do with it? I do not see myself as qualified to reject the findings of bacteriologists. I'm pleased to hear that you are now prepared to consider the possibility that ants know what they are doing.-I recognize that ant colonies do some very intricate and complex social behaviors. Since we do not fully understand the development of instinctual behavior, your point is possible that some of it may have developed by experimentation. But what we see now is worker ants, as examples, doing automatic repetitive behaviors.