@farmerman,
Quote:So, you'd say that chemical bonding is not intelligence?
I agree chemical bonding does not require intelligence.
A computer does not require intelligence to beat me at checkers either. I would suggest both require intelligence to create the system they are operating in. If I want a computer to beat me at a more complex game like chess somebody is going to have to program it to do that. If the chemicals in DNA are replicating an organism without eyes and ears, and they eventually replicate an organism with eyes and ears I doubt random mutations through natural selection can do that because, it takes imagination and planning to add that kind of complexity to the computer game or biology. The reason is both are evolving information systems. They both follow the same rules when it comes to adding complexity. Because, all information and complexity is purely a mathematical process, and all mathematical processes follow all the same rules of math. Only intelligence seems to operate outside those rules.
If that's not true, lets simulate adding random changes to the checkers program, and simulate natural selection after the information is added, and see if we end up with "chess" or "Dungeons and Dragons" or "Donkey Kong". Who knows maybe all we might have to do is monitor it and keep it running maybe even add a more advanced processor and memory, and we could just get rich letting the computer create more advanced video games. (Here is another test for natural selection vs ID)
Do you think we can get a computer to do that?
Could you answer my questions about SETI and complex chemistry from my previous post to you?