[metmom]

The machinery that gives rise to the intelligence is inherent in the physics an intellegence exists in. That means, given some particular physics, the machinery that supports the functions of intelligence will arise by self assembly.

How? What makes you so sure about this?

What scientific evidence do you have to support your conclusions?

You're stating this with a great deal of certainty. Presuming that you're human, just like the rest of us, where did you garner this information that seems to have escaped the rest of us?

If the machinery which gives rise to intelligence self-assembled, then the machinery becomes the creator and hence replaces God.

All you've done is replaced God in the universe with a machine as an explanation of how intelligence arose.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear sister in Christ!

Truly, at the lowest level the organism did not have the intelligence to anticipate the need for maintenance and repair.

[spunkets]

Re: The machinery that gives rise to the intelligence is inherent in the physics an intellegence exists in. That means, given some particular physics, the machinery that supports the functions of intelligence will arise by self assembly.

"How? What makes you so sure about this?

Conservation of energy and the consistency of physics.

" What scientific evidence do you have to support your conclusions?"

See Noether's theorm and the Ward-Takahashi identity and also note that there are no examples of processes violating the conservation of energy principle.

"If the machinery which gives rise to intelligence self-assembled, then the machinery becomes the creator and hence replaces God."

No.

"All you've done is replaced God in the universe with a machine as an explanation of how intelligence arose."

W/o the machinery there is nothing to support the functions of intelligence.