Brain complexity: whole brain vision mechanisms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 16:25 (3081 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The problem, as I see it, is that what IS includes life on Earth and us, and we want to know how that started. I think David will go along with energy, matter and intelligence as source - intelligence being the mind of the God he believes invented life on Earth. He may be right. But it is equally possible that intelligence has not always been part of what IS: i.e. that there is not one eternal mind governing the universe, but minds have evolved out of an infinite and eternal mixing of mindless energy and matter (i.e. intelligence does have a source). I find both hypotheses equally incredible, but one of them must be closer to the truth.-For me 'mixing mindless energy and matter' is a complete non-starter. The evolution we see appears to be a driven process, if convergence is accepted. What drives the 'mindless'? I see nothing except chance permutations, which become organized into 'mind'. Yes, we can dream of the impossible, but that doesn't make it logical.