(2023-06-19, 03:31 PM)stephenw Wrote: To me and maybe others here, you keep repeating claims of "magic" intent coming from electro-chemical sparks, rather than seeing how biology has simulated logic gates in response to information processing demands. (1)Did neurons figure it out like little minds in themselves, or (2) did living things evolve to exploit natural information tools?
I suggest that choice two is the more pragmatic.
Can you please quote back the place where I repeated a claim of magic intent coming from electro-chemical sparks? That doesn't even sound close to anything I wrote.
Yes, I agree that living things evolved to exploit information tools. But I also think those information tools evolved.
There are many animals without a brain. They have simple neurons that transmit a sensed condition across the body to cause simple movements. I think humans evolved from animals that had similar simple nervous systems. As evolution continued, the neurons were grouped together in a central brain. The process of transmitting the signals became much more complex, with the neurons doing complex logic on the incoming signals. This eventually evolved into the human brain.
None of this in any sense implies a magic intent from the electro-chemical sparks of life.
What are you referring to when you refer to natural information tools? How do they differ from magic?