GOD IN THE UNIVERSE

intelligence and understanding are global not atomistic properties of mind. they no more exist — nor are they concentrated — within a single neuron or small circuit of neurons as overseers than a termite colony building a mound has a single architect or building committee, and noone has a set of drawings or any form of plan that exists prior to and separate from the action that creates the thing. the same is true of the way entire single organisms self-assemble; there is no architect and there is no pre-existing plan, there is just the continual division into ever more complex assymetrical structures arising out of the simple actions of the simpler structure that preceded it; the plan is an integral and emerging property of the organism that is developing and is parallel to it. ditto the cosmos.

so much for god in the universe.