[MD] expanded list Platt

[plattholden at gmail.com]

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"?