More Denton: A new book (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, March 04, 2016, 14:21 (2976 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: The IM is within the cell/cell community, and of course my hypothesis depends entirely on cells being conscious! (But cellular consciousness is not the same as human self-awareness.) That is why I keep repeating the unequivocal declaration by different experts in the field that cells are sentient, intelligent, cognitive, decision-making beings. The fact that you dismiss the very possibility of cells being conscious does not invalidate the findings of these experts or the hypothesis that I have based on those findings. Once more: my autonomous IM is conscious, and if it wasn't, it could not be autonomous. - DAVID: In a way you are joining me. I propose a universal consciousness, and every living thing could be part of it, but I favor control thru the UC. - I have always understood your universal consciousness to be a single mind. Maybe it is. But I do not find this hypothesis any more believable than that of zillions of individual consciousnesses contained within zillions of organisms, all with their own different levels and abilities. Different communities may link up with one another as per Sheldrake's morphic resonance, and BBella's ALL THAT IS may be linked together in an endlessly interacting process of causes and effects, but these concepts do not require a single controlling mind.