EVOLUTION AND PURPOSE (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 26, 2015, 14:53 (3074 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: How do you distinguish between intelligence and sophisticated intelligence?-Border collies then poodles in the ranking of dogs are one and two. How about IQ?-> dhw: but when cell communities adapt to changed environments, they do so without advance planning (unless you think they predict the changes), and have to do so with great rapidity. Indeed, many of them fail - hence extinctions.-Your cell communities are now stated as fact? Extinctions are not instantaneous, but take millions of years. There is time for adaptation if possible.-> dhw: we don't know how ANY form of intelligence developed.-Exactly. I view it as a miracle. 
 
> dhw: We test one another's hypotheses. And I am trying with you to “reason to the best solution”. When I put alternatives to you, I think it is right and proper that you apply your standard philosophical technique of reasoning to look for loopholes. I am simply doing the same.-Fair enough. I will continue to poke loopholes into your invented cell community committee intelligence.