tdcanam writes:
Message 111
DNA has no consciousness. It can't display intent on it's own. The codes contained within DNA however contain intent. The code sent from DNA contains specific instructions to build a specific thing to specific dimensions. That is intent. The ribsome is meant to get the code, it is meant to understand it, it is meant to replicate it and the intended outcome, already precoded in the DNA, comes out as it was intended. That's intent.
Let's say that for a second we assume DNA is encoded information.
If (according to you) it takes an intelligence to encode the information, then why does it not take an intelligence to decode the information?
If ribosomes are all the intelligence required to decode the information, then why is not ribosomal intelligence enough to encode the information in the first place? And, afterall, ribosomes are nothing more than chemicals. And so it would reason that this "intelligence" that you are talking about that encoded DNA could very possible just be chemicals, and not necessarily some "higher power."
The code sent from DNA contains specific instructions to build a specific thing to specific dimensions. That is intent.
No, that's not intent; that's just matching up the other half. DNA cannot "read" the code. It can't tranlsate it from one form to another. All it can do is rip itself apart and then wait for the other ends to fall into place. It's like saying the basketball shows intent because it always falls downward, and never upward.
You see, certain things always happen one way, and they will keep happening that one way. And just because the DO happen that one way, does not mean that it's intentional.
Jon
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