I should have mentioned that the earlier shown circuit is representative of coexisting emergent systems. The same model works at multiple levels. If the molecular (RNA world) level system is working properly then cells should on their own emerge, followed by these cells on their own learning how to develop into increasingly complex intelligent multicellular systems as happened during the “Cambrian Explosion”.
The explanation below was written to at the same time help answer big-questions the general public are most interested in, while using the phrase “intelligent causation” in scientific context needed for the biological scientific theory I had, before the ID movement made such a phrase controversial. It would be easier for me to avoid the issue by renaming things using next best words, but for the sake of those who only wanted to see what happens when a hypothesis for “intelligent cause” is objectively developed into a scientific theory it’s at least in part a personal victory, instead of shame for having seen no harm to science and science education in at least trying. To be useful to those who do not want or are ready for HTM theory scale detail I found that the core model needs to start with David Heiserman basics that for good reason have long been of fascination to robot builders of all ages, and ~25 years later still best applies at all fundamental levels of biology. In this case what’s most important are the very first neural self-learning brain circuits, not what 600 or so million years later developed. There is then a high school appropriate model and theory with a very real “It’s ALIVE!” moment for young scientists who can later at home successfully code/create their first virtual critter. Being able to go from there on into modeling the (assumed unintelligent) behavior of matter “which does not necessarily need to be intelligent to be the fundamental source of consciousness” keeps that scientific and for some religious mystery going on into the biggest of big questions including those relating to afterlife. This makes the model and theory inherently “faith friendly” enough to be welcomed change, better that than nothing. To also be as precise as possible to all readers and stay in spirit with what started in Kansas the terminology is the same as it has always been even though this puts the model and theory in context of theory that according to Wikipedia is “pseudoscience”. So I hope that this long paragraph disclaimer made it clear that I do not represent what gave itself a bad reputation. In my case there is a model where the illustrations for it would remain the same regardless of words used to name things, where you only have to not mind the paradox.
Reciprocal cause/causation between levels goes in both the forward and reverse direction. These communicative behavioral pathways cause all of our complex intelligence related behaviors to connect back to the behavior of matter, which does not necessarily need to be intelligent to be the fundamental source of consciousness.
(1) Molecular Level Intelligence: Behavior of matter causes self-assembly of molecular systems that in time become molecular level intelligence, where biological RNA and DNA memory systems learn over time by replication of their accumulated genetic knowledge through a lineage of successive offspring. This intelligence level controls basic growth and division of our cells, is a primary source of our instinctual behaviors, and causes molecular level social differentiation (i.e. speciation).
(2) Cellular Level Intelligence: Molecular level intelligence is the intelligent cause of cellular level intelligence. This intelligence level controls moment to moment cellular responses such as locomotion/migration and cellular level social differentiation (i.e. neural plasticity). At our conception we were only at the cellular intelligence level. Two molecular intelligence systems (egg and sperm) which are on their own unable to self-replicate combined into a single self-replicating cell, a zygote. The zygote then divided to become a colony of cells, an embryo. Later during fetal development we made it to the multicellular intelligence level which requires a self-learning neural brain to control motor muscle movements (also sweat gland motor muscles).
(3) Multicellular Level Intelligence: Cellular level intelligence is the intelligent cause of multicellular level intelligence. In this case a multicellular body is controlled by a brain made of cells, expressing all three intelligence levels at once, which results in our complex and powerful paternal (fatherly), maternal (motherly) and other behaviors. This intelligence level controls our moment to moment multicellular responses, locomotion/migration and multicellular level social differentiation (i.e. occupation). Successful designs remain in the biosphere’s interconnected collective (RNA/DNA) memory to help keep going the billions year old cycle of life, where in our case not all individuals must reproduce for the human lineage to benefit from all in society.
The combined knowledge and behavior of all three intelligence levels guides spawning salmon of both sexes on long perilous migrations to where they were born and may choose to stay to defend their nests “till death do they part” from not being able to survive for long in freshwater conditions. Motherly alligators and crocodiles gently carry their well guarded hatchlings to the water, and their fathers will learn to not eat the food she gathers for them. If the babies are scared then they will call and she will be quick to come to their aid and let them ride on her head and body, as they learn what they need to know to succeed in life. For humans this instinctual and learned knowledge has through time guided us towards marriage ceremonies to ask for “blessing” from a conscious part of us that our multicellular intelligence level (brain) may be able to sense coming from the other intelligence levels we cannot directly experience, which at the genetic intelligence level has for billions of years been alive, and is now still alive inside of us…
This is how the (origin of life from behavior of matter) interaction relates to chemical/molecular and biological speciation, which on rare occasion adds another intelligent behavior level similarly able to learn by trial and error:
All of the behavior levels between the molecular level system and environment are at work at the same time. When our cellular level is busy battling invading cells “we” at the multicellular level feel ill and may respond by staying home from work or school instead of usual activities. We also all started as a single cell zygote that takes nine months to develop the mind of a newborn, which further changes over time to become experimentative then flirtatious then usually develops an adult mind needed to lovingly raise a newborn.
I agree that to be complete a model for human intelligence requires the molecular level detail you mentioned. Where successful you’re then in a realm that has religious implications and how things are defined can make all the difference in the world in regards to how useful and well received it is by the average person.
In my case I ended up where a problem pertaining to something “intelligent” was waiting to be solved, where you would probably have to be there to sense what was needed. It seemed that this was a good time for me to explain what I came up with, even though that task is not easy.