Life is full of examples showing intelligence. Man himself is the biggest. I quote from my work
http://www.sleepgadgetabs.com: "Am I legitimized to base my hypothesis on the idea of nature’s innate intelligence and what I mean by it?"
Intelligence: I don’t give it the original meaning of the word (namely, to choose between contingent alternatives). What I really mean is: in response to environmental and other factors, a naturally inside organism pre-existing mechanism, and by force of chemistry and physics, causes changes in the genome. So I think of it as a mechanism, but not intelligence in any traditional sense. Of course we have then the eternal question to face here: how was this made?" But this is a second level question.
I don’t think there is any need to find proofs for existence of such intelligence. It is so abundant around us. It doesn’t necessarily imply a Designer, but it can’t also of course preclude it.
J. Shapiro talks about such intelligence inside cells.
From Guenter Albrecht-Buehler and Robert Laughlin Rea work on CELL INTELLIGENCE I quote:
My experimental work during the past 30 years suggests that single tissue cells have their own data- and signal-processing capacities that help them control their movements and orientation. Cells can seemeasure space and time and must be able to derive abstract data from physical signals
I would like to have the opinion of EvC Forum members.
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