Ants, slime mold & bacteria (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Friday, April 22, 2016, 19:42 (2919 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw; Here are some quotes from the video you recommended:
> These studies are “redefining what is it to be intelligent.” They “challenge what we think of as intelligence.” “It's not that nature lacks intelligence, but our own concepts do”. Not quite the same as “no intellect required”. - Resident intellect is not required if the organisms is programmed as I have describe. The quote presumes no God/mind planning the organism. - > 
> dhw: But please do not focus on chemical processes of acquiring or communicating information as if they explained decision-making, and do not focus on human concept-making as if its absence in bacteria denoted absence of intelligence. Your view that bacteria are not intelligent is a purely personal opinion, to which of course you are perfectly entitled, but the scientific (chemical processes) and philosophical (no concept-making) evidence you have cited is irrelevant. - The evidence is not irrelevant. My interpretation simply differs from the one you prefer


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