Like when you combine the components of a watch and produce a watch, the watch emerged and you can say the watch components had the emergent property to produce a watch...as if "emergence" is some kind of magic that just happens without planning.
What bloody nonsense to start with the very complex & think you've won any argument here, as usual without stopping to use your brain for a moment & think how such complexity could emerge. And that over vast periods of time.
As for a source for keeping time (and later emergence of your watch), most all life from the beginning is subject to the rythyms of light & dark, revolution of the earth, the entire ecosytem of the earth is dependent on these seasonal cycles & chemical responses of microflora's bloom each year to them. From that world all life is related & emerged. That sense of time & spatial orientation would also emerge as the complexity of the organism does and evolves greater motility & advanced structure to the point of the migrations we see today in mammals & birds to perform the tasks of feeding or procreation.
Whether intelligent or not, we are talking about trillions of subtle internal modifications, trial & error from that one great mystery of the first cellular beginnings. How does the watch come into being, because that sense of rythm of those original chemical responses going on, the watch was therefore inside us from the beginning, not metaphorically either. |
