5th December 2005, 3:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 5th December 2005, 6:15 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria
In that explanation of how bacteria operate, what indicates intelligence? There is no reason to appoint intelligence to mere reactions. All the things you describe fail to provide any evidence that bacteria are self aware.
However, I have decided to get some people that actually have studied this field in further detail to settle this.
One thing to say by the way. What makes you think evolution is an ACTIVE process, something that creatures actually DO? Creatures don't think "I'd better evolve and SOON!" they just reproduce and die. Evolution is just a phrase used to describe why some creatures die and others continue to live and how, over millions of years, a single random mutation might actually be beneficial to life instead of detrimental or neutral. No creature is ever aware of evolution "occuring", because that's not a proper model of how it operates.
So, this idea that this is the method by which life can "learn" is a little confused.
In that explanation of how bacteria operate, what indicates intelligence? There is no reason to appoint intelligence to mere reactions. All the things you describe fail to provide any evidence that bacteria are self aware.
However, I have decided to get some people that actually have studied this field in further detail to settle this.
One thing to say by the way. What makes you think evolution is an ACTIVE process, something that creatures actually DO? Creatures don't think "I'd better evolve and SOON!" they just reproduce and die. Evolution is just a phrase used to describe why some creatures die and others continue to live and how, over millions of years, a single random mutation might actually be beneficial to life instead of detrimental or neutral. No creature is ever aware of evolution "occuring", because that's not a proper model of how it operates.
So, this idea that this is the method by which life can "learn" is a little confused.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)