N.Wells
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Joined: Oct. 2005
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First, stress-induced hypermutation is not news and it is not contrary to modern evolutionary theory. It is an evolvable capability.
Second, this is only metaphorically equivalent to guessing, and third, intelligence does not "require the ability to make a guess". If it requires anything, it is the ability to learn from experience and to apply what it has learned when deciding how to respond to something.
Intelligence involves the ability to learn from experience and to decide how to apply that experience in making decisions. While this can include guessing, as often as not what you are calling a guess is a stochastic or random imposition. This would include episodes of random tumbling, or mutations. Information is added during a tumble or a mutation, and it is processed and organized (by selection for mutations, by resensing and reorienting after a tumble), but no intelligence is involved or required in the imposition of the experience (no guess is made in any regular sense of the word 'guess'), and nothing is 'learned' in any regular sense of the word 'learn'. Your criterion, which makes sense for programming a robot, is nonsensical when applied to organisms.
You have yet to establish that creatures have confidence meters or assess confidence levels, as opposed to simply instinctively reacting to physical and chemical signals that their genome has evolved to recognize as hostile and dangerous.
You are being rubbished for general stupidity with respect all the nonsense that you spout about guessing, learning, selection, intelligence, design, and all the other stuff in your tower of babble, not for saying that hypermutation happens.
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