Re:Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indica...
by bf404 on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:08PM
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That's true - and we see that sort of "seeking" behaviour in single celled organisms as well (e.g. https://www.mit.edu/~kardar/teaching/projects/chemotaxis(And...) - but this can be explained by a pretty simple feedback loop, and so the the difference in complexity between that and, say, the ability to keep track of different individuals in a social group and reacti differently, is orders of magnitude.
Reminds me of a documentary I once watched, watching a timelapse of a vine growing upwards. It grows spiraling, and it looks like it is "looking" for where the walls are, adjusting its trajectory whenever it touches a wall.
It's fascinating, and for me it definitely does have some quality of "intelligence" to it.