A THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE Part Three (Identity)

by David Turell , Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 18:25 (2163 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Excellent summary of your thinking. There should not be life in an inorganic universe but it appeared in all its complexity. And your final puzzle as to why there is intelligence can have only one answer. Intelligence preexisted the appearance of the Big Bang.

dhw: Thank you, but as always I’d be interested to hear your response to my thinking. Do you regard life and consciousness to be the work of a divine scientist or a divine magician? When you quite rightly emphasize the complexity of design, do you think it has nothing to do with the ultimate products, which are life and consciousness, and these have to be magically “breathed into” the lifeless materials instead of being produced by the application of science to those materials?

The complexity of the biochemistry of life creates life as an emergent property. But the cleverness of the design of all the biochemical interlocking reactions requires a designer. In other words, except for human consciousness and conscious animals, if all those organic molecules are formed and come together life will appear from the combination, but can never come by chance formulation. Being conscious may arise from the brain but may arise from universal consciousness, based on the Jewish tradition that animals have their special kind of soul. Human consciousness, being so unusual it must be at a quantum level and part of universal consciousness, i.e., part of God's consciousness.