[MD] expanded list Platt

[plattholden at gmail.com]

I know you didn't make the claim. I did. Try. You can do it.  


On 27 Apr 2010 at 10:01, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Platt]
> I'm confident you're capable of answering your own questions if you 
> just give them a little thought.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I didn't make the claim. You did. Here are the 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"?