I claim you can answer your questions if you try. On 27 Apr 2010 at 10:59, Arlo Bensinger wrote:
> [Platt] > I know you didn't make the claim. I did. Try. You can do it. > > [Arlo] > I know what my answers would be. I am asking you what YOUR answers > are, since YOU made the claim that both "Quality" and "cells" "have > intelligence". Since I've already said "no" to both of these, I am > asking YOU to substantiate your claim. > > Enough with the evasions, Platt. Really. These are legitimate > questions pertaining to your claims. > > [Arlo repeats his questions, again] > Can you explain the difference (if any) between saying "cells have > intelligence", "man has intelligence" and "Quality has intelligence"? > What does it mean to "have intelligence"? > > Also, if "cells have intelligence", where does that intelligence > reside? We localize human intelligence in the neural mass in our > heads (I doubt we'd say an amputee becomes "less intelligent" upon > losing a limb, or that such an operation would impact her/his > "intelligence" at all). > > Do you think carbon atoms ever had "intelligence"? Do they now? At > what level does "intelligence" finally disappear. You say that "cells > have intelligence", do you think Ribosomes or Mitochondrion "have > intelligence"? What about more macrotic cellular constructs, does a > stomach or a heart "have intelligence"? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
