Wayyy out there

Taking the chemical computer brain hypothesis one step further…

Do the chemicals that store memory and analytical solutions have to be in the body of one critter? Maybe not.

Maybe there is intelligence spread across ecosystems and the whole planet.

An alternative or ancillary explanation to Darwin’s and the divine.

I have always thought that evolution by positively reinforced random trial and error sounded a little dodgy, for two reasons.

Firstly, there is too much ‘long range structure’; similar traits developed independently in different environments for my liking. Yeah I know the counter arguments but …

Secondly, the time frame for evolution from the first prokaryote, 3.5 billion years (that’s a guess), is way too short for my liking. And, yeah, I can run the simulation of the simulation in my head …

My gut feeling is that it’s a little more guided or connected than that; the ‘divine’ may be the distributed chemical ‘intelligence’ in the ecosystem.