[allmendream]

Yes I did. I said that “memory” in the case of an amoebae was a molecular state preconditioning it to certain actions and was not, in and of itself, evidence of awareness or cognition.

And as my numerous examples aver, actions take place without cognition that serve a purpose. Purpose and cognition are not linked.

[betty boop]

"How, therefore, we must ask, is it possible for us to distinguish the living from the lifeless if we can describe both conceptually by the motion of inorganic corpuscles?" — Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science