Brain complexity: whole brain vision mechanisms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 01:01 (3082 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:You left out my next sentence, which was that “I am happy to accept energy and matter as first cause, but not intelligence.” My objection is to your claim that somehow the magic formula of “first cause” is enough to explain intelligence.-I don't view it that way. First cause must have intelligence to explain the invention of the reality in which we live.-> dhw: And since we have no idea how/why ANY thought processes in ANY organism appear or work - as per all of us, not just Nagel - my answer to your original question is that the source of the instructions is “intelligence” itself (whose source is unknown), both for you and for bacteria.-But at least we can say that the intelligence must have a source.