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> > David’s comment: [i]Logically not a match made by heaven. Cyanobacteria are in the ocean as are mollusks. They naturally fell together for mutual benefit.[/i]
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> > dhw: [i]Delighted to read your comment. A fine example of cooperation, and if your God did not reach down from heaven, or did not plant instructions in the first cells, I would suggest that maybe the barnacles and the cyanobacteria worked this arrangement out for themselves. Rather intelligent of them, don’t you think?[/i]
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> > DAVID: [i]No real intelligence. Just practical adaptation with mutual benefit.[/i]
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> > dhw: What do you mean by “real” intelligence? I would suggest that it takes a certain degree of sentience, communication. information-processing, decision-making for organisms to cooperate for their mutual benefit. Do you put barnacles and cynobacteria on the same intelligence level as, say, stones and water?
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> None of what you list suggests 'intelligence' at a brain processing level. I still contend cyanobacteria carry intelligently-designed automatic processes, and mollusks were happy to snuggle together with them.